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 SECTION LXV. 



Oh/ervations on Saintfoin and Lucerne : Culture 



and life, 



SO much has been already fald in the begin- 

 ning of this work refpedling faint-foin, that I 

 will not tire the reader with repetitions, but re- 

 fer him to Sedion XIII. As to its great utili- 

 ty, and the general method of culture, I now 

 confine myfelf tothe laying down of my ideas 

 refpe<^ing an improvement in fowing; and even 

 in that refpefb I have little more to ^r^ than 

 that I would recommend it to be fown in drills. 

 And if it were fown at the fame time with bar- 

 ley, the faintfoin feed would be in the fame 

 rows : but then the barley muft be fown thin- 

 ner, or it muft come up before the faintfoin 

 be fown. If the barley were fown fix inches 

 afunder, drills might be made betwixt each row 

 for the faintfoin feed : but I prefer fowing bar- 

 ley every four inches, and the faintfoin feed 

 along with the barley \ by which means the 

 feed would be more difperfed over the land. 



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