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and afford a good deal of hay besides. However, a* 

 fcoth these crops require a dry climate, much weed- 

 ing, ami a peculiar soil, and do not arrive speedily at 

 perfection, clovei- is jjreferable ; besides the rotation 

 of crops would be broken in some degree by cultiva- 

 ting- them ; however, in a small detached paddock, 

 one or other of these grasses, for very early cutting, 

 may be desirable for young- or sick animals. Indeed, 

 xmless the soil is light, dry and loose, inclining to 

 siuid, with the sub-soil Httle inferior to the surface, 

 it would be vain to cidtivate lucern, though sainfoiu 

 suay succeed on any loose bottom. 



No. IX. 



Here learn what skill and care for otho-s clo. 

 And let their good example profit you. 



I o«iitted to state in my last numb(>r that clover 

 'Ought to be given in very small quantities at a time, 

 and always cut some hours before it is used, in order 

 that the dxed air may escape fi-om the stalks — " Pre- 

 A'ention is better than remedy ;" it is wiser to guard 

 against the entrance «f this air into your cow's sto- 

 mach, than to depend upon an instrument for letting, 

 it out of it in order to save her from bursting. If the 

 soiling system in summer, with green crop feeding 

 in winter, were in general use among you, in a ch- 

 mate so favourable from its mildness and moisture, as 

 Gur's is, to herbage crops, and turnips, and mangel 

 wurzel, and so frequently uufavouralile to wheat and 

 barley, I shoidd have no doubt of your rapitUy rising 

 in the scale of comfort. Your rents, and taxes too, 

 are considerably lower than in Englaiifl, Scotland er 

 Flanders, and the price of labour Jiere, is nuich lower. 

 aluin in those coimtries; and yet too many of jou ant 



