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such (trefoil), and ray.grass. He does not like trefoil, 

 but ray-grass much : it makes the best of hay, and if kept 

 fed very close, it is good all the summer, carrying much 

 stock, which secures corn. He conceives that clover itself 

 is not so good as ray, as he remarks that cattle feed down 

 the borders when turned to clover much sooner and closer 

 than they do when in ray-grass fields. After drilling his 

 barley he harrows, rolls, and sows one bushel of ray, seven 

 pound of clover, four pound of white. Mows the first 

 growth, feeds the second, and the second year. 



Mr. England, of Binham, red clover, one round, 

 and trefoil and white the other ; ray-grass, one peek with 

 either: if any thing like a failure, which thus rarely hap- 

 pens, takes it up the first year, instead of leaving it two. 



Mr. Reeve, of Wighton, alternate rounds; clover, 

 one course, and trefoil, white and ray, the other; but 

 both for two years, if they will stand : intends the red 

 clover only for one year. He has a great opinion of rayr 

 grass, thinking it the best grass they sow, and gets as goocj 

 corn after it, as after any other. He finds that trefoil stands 

 a drought better than either red or white clover. 



Mr. M. Hill, Qib. of clover; 3!!). of trefoil; 61b. of 

 white Dutch ; and from one-quarter of a peck to two pecks 

 of ray : but his land is very sick of clover. He leaves the 

 layer two years, breaking up part by a bastaid fallow, and 

 leaving part for one earth on the flag. In the consump- 

 tion, prefers mowing one year and feeding the second. 

 He has made observations on the comparison of mowing 

 nnd feeding, and thinks the difference not striking in the 

 wheat ; but has remarked, that seeds broken up the first 

 year after mowing, have yielded as good wheat as the se- 

 cond year's seed, though manured. This is curious; but, 

 quere, whether the clover did not predominate in one case 

 and the ray in the other ? 



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