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more than five {hillings per acre for any other 

 ufe. Saintfoin ought always to be preferved 

 for mowing. The method of treating it is as 

 follows : — If fown in the fpring with barley ; 

 when the barley is mown, the flubble muft be 

 left high. It would be much better if the bar- 

 ley were fhorn, as the ftubble would then afford 

 fhelter for the plant during winter. Rake the 

 Hubble off in the fpring; but put no flock 

 upon it from the time of harvefting the barley 

 to the time of mowing the firft crop, which, as 

 I laid before, will not be abundant. In the 

 month of September there will be after-grafs, 

 which may be depaftured by fheep and bcarts, 

 but not by horfes. Sheep muft not be kept 

 on it after the froft fets in ; for, by eating too 

 near the root, at the latter end of the year they 

 will do the plant much injury. This cautioa 

 is, therefore, abfolutely neceffary. 



No ftock muft be put upon this grafs in the 

 fpring; and it will be ready to mow early in 

 fummer, moft probably in the beginning of 

 June. It muft not be fuffered to grow too 

 long before it is mown, or many bad confe- 

 quences may enfue; for the root is thereby 

 exhaufted, and the duration of the plant much 



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