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he mows once, nncl fccils the second growth ; the second 

 year feeds all : on strong land he plouglis after the first 

 feeding of the second vear, and sows hiick-wheat to plough 

 under for wheat ; but on light land hn riffics \ht lay, or 

 else scales it thin ; after harvest harrows well, ploughs 

 clean, and dibbles wheat. Red clover never fails with him, 

 if sown only once in six years. 



Mr. Margateson, of North Walsham, very rarely 

 misses of clover in the six-shift husbandry ; if it does fail 

 the loss is great, for he thiriks trefoil very uncertain for 

 hay ; when it does happen, the clover of the next course is 

 sure to be good. The lir^t growth of the fust year is 

 always mown ; the second fed, as well as the second year. 

 There will in the second vear be as much grass upon one 

 acre mown only once the first year, as on three acres that 

 were mown twice: this is a remarkable observation, and 

 goes direftly to the point of mowing or feeding new lays 

 of permanent grass. 



Mr. Dyble, of Scotter, does not find that land sickens 

 of clover in the six-shift husbandry ; sows clover-suckling 

 and ray for two years. 



Mr. Palgrave, at Cokishal, has sown his seeds on 

 the barley, after it was up, but it did not succeed for want 

 of rain. He sows only red and white then, and after har- 

 vest, the ray, on the first rain coming; by this means it is 

 backwarder when the clover is mown : in the common 

 management, the ray is in seed when the clover is in blos- 

 som, which damages the hay, besides the land being loaded 

 with perhaps a sack an acre of the seed, which hurts the 

 clovers of the second year. On the whole, however, he 

 hates ray-grass, and has for three years omitted it ; but 

 candidly owns that his success has not been good. 



Above thirty years ago, clover from Norwich to Yar- 

 mouth, was very generally mown twice; and as general an 



opinion. 



