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food in ttone, as in the foil it is partial to there 

 can be little or no food in the furface, efpeci- 

 ally for fuch a number of years* I have been 

 told that where ftone-quanries have been made 

 after faintfoin has grown on the land, the roots 

 have been found to llnkefeveral fctrt down into 

 the rock. This is a profitable herb, far exceed- 

 ing any yet propagated on poor land : no other 

 is fo beneficial to the farmer, according to the 

 value of the land it is fown upon •, but great 

 care muft be taken, if manure be laid upon it, 

 that fuch manure be as clear from grafs-feeds 

 of different kinds as poMible; for faintfoin is 

 very liable to be injured by adventitious feeds 

 getting amongft it. Pigeons' dung, rape-dull, 

 malt-combs, foot, or almorc any hand-manure, 

 are proper. Saintfoia, if properly fown, and 

 on fuitable land, will bear good crops from ten 

 to fourteen years; may be eaten with fheep for 

 three years afterwards, and will maintain three 

 times more ftock than the produce of the land 

 in the natural (late. I have known it mown 

 for fourteen years. The fir ft year there will 

 always be a thin crop; but the fucceeding ten 

 year, it has yielded upwards of two tons per 

 acre, on land which ac uis time is not worth 



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