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proper to be fown with red-clover ; as trefoil 

 grows with a fmall vine-like fibre, which runs 

 up with the clover fomething like rodded peas. 

 By that means, the crop, from the fupport it 

 receives from the clover, becomes fuller and 

 more weighty, and the hay much better than it 

 pofiibly could be without fuch aftiftance. 



Clover may be depaftured in the autumn by 

 fheep; and even in fpring, if abfalute neceflity 

 fhould require it ; but it is better, if poflible, 

 not to admit them to it at that feafon. The 

 beft crop of clover I ever had was from letting 

 turnip- fheep run at leifure upon a field of it, for 

 about four months in the winter. It confjfted 

 of about twelve acres, fituated at the corner of 

 a fixty acres* walk : and being fhort of fencing, 

 and the reft of my clover very good, I thought 

 I would run the rifk of fpoiling the twelve 

 acres. Three hundred fheep ran upon it until 

 the twentieth of February. They v/ere then 

 moved from it, and at the time they were ta- 

 ken away, you could not, at a few yards diftance 

 difcover the piece to have been clover— in fome 

 places, not even if you walked over it. But 

 when it was mown, it turned out, as obferved 

 above, the molt abundant crop I had ever ob- 



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