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ihoots up ; and if depaftured, it will branch 

 for a long time before it runs into feed. To 

 prevent this, you muft crowd it with different 

 kinds of (lock, fuch as fheep, beafts, and horfes i 

 and if of different ages, they will be more like- 

 ly to clear the land by eating the crop clean 

 off; for if it be fuffered to run to feed, the 

 root becomes exhaufted* If, in fpite of the 

 (lock you have put on, you find a difpofition 

 in the grafs to ked 9 increafe the number of hor- 

 fes, which are the only animals that are fond 

 of it when feeding ; and you may diminifh 

 the number of fheep, for in that (late of the 

 plant they derive but little nourifhment from 

 it, as few leaves are then left upon the ftem j 

 which is one reafon for fowing trefoil and white 

 clover with it* 



Trefoil is efteemed a bitter plant, and fheep 

 are thought not to be fond of it -, but I muft 

 own that nothing within the compafs of my ex- 

 perience has led me to adopt this opinion. 

 Trefoil grows about a month earlier than 

 white-clover, and long before the rye-grafs h 

 exhaufted. It is improper to be fown alone, 

 except for the exprefs purpofe of raifing feed. 

 There are no foils proper for trefoil but what 



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