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ments, by eating one part with fheep all the 

 fummer, cropping or mowing a part, fencing 

 another part, and eating with fheep after mow- 

 ing. Another I mowed once, and then at- 

 tempted to get feed from the after-crop. The 

 feafon fetting in wet, I mowed and took it off 

 for manure into the fold-yard. I then plough- 

 ed the land, and fowed it the next day ; and 

 that part of the field produced by far the bed 

 crop of wheat, in refpecl both to quantity and 

 goodnefs of grain. I have ploughed the fecond 

 crop of clover in -, but I never found any bene- 

 fit from that. 



When you intend the red clover for hay, 

 you mufl watch very clofely in refpect to the 

 time of cutting ; for, fhoud you mow it too 

 foon, and the weather turn out wet, the crop 

 would quickly receive damage, and be a long 

 time getting ready for flacking. If on the con- 

 trary you let it (land too long, until the leaf^ 

 which is the beft part of the clover, begins to 

 fall, it makes the ftalks ftumpy, andyoufuffer 

 great lofs by the dropping of the leaf, and by 

 the wafle of the mod pleafantand nutritivepart 

 of the hay. It certainly is preferable to be ra- 

 ther too foon, than too late, in mowing. For, 



though 



