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kind of foil than in another : but I believe 

 white-clover to be the leaft partial of any. Few 

 animals like the nap of white-clover : you fee 

 it in every pafture remain until the feed is per- 

 fectly ripe, when it drops on the land and re- 

 mains until by ibme movement of the earth a 

 fmall fermentation is caufed, and vegetation 

 takes place* One load of manure put in a 

 ftate of fermentation into the land, is of double 

 the value of the fame quantity, after it has been 

 fuffered to lie until all fermentation is over, and 

 has fhrunk to one half its bulk. 



White-clover has been by fome fuppofed to 

 caufe the rot in fheep. But in that cafe all the 

 land in the world, capable of feeding fheep, 

 muft caufe the rot. On the contrary, I am of 

 opinion this diftemper is not occafioned by any 

 fort of herb, but by a kind of egg or fpawn, 

 frequently depofited in very fmall ftagnant 

 iwamps of water. Thefe the fheep fwallow, and 

 are not able to digeft : the liver affords them a 

 neft in which they are hatched, and where the 

 animalcula produced from them dwell, derive 

 nouridiment from the blood, and increafe in 

 bulk. 



Having faid (o much on the three plants, 

 rye grafs, trefoil, and white-clover, under their 



feparate 



