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tlover ; ten wkh trefoil ; ten with red clover ; and ten 

 with sainfoin only. The result was, thai the white clover 

 division turned out the best ; the sainfoin alone the next 

 best ; then the trefoil, and the red clover much the worst. 



Some years after that period he tried ray-grass, and ap- 

 proved of it much better than any other plant for this pur- 

 pose, observing, that it kept down the blubber-grass, so 

 apt to come with sainfoin : but from the time of the drill 

 husbandry being adopted he has left off all additions : the 

 regularity of the crop being so great that all spaces are 

 filled, and the cleanness of the land being trusted to against 

 the blubber. 



Mr. Allen, at Stanhow, had very fine sainfoin on a 

 rich loamy sand, on a clay marie bottom, worth i6s. an 

 acre. The common crop was two tons per acre. 



In 1792, Mr. Be VAN, at Riddlesworth, sowed two 

 bushels an acre of sainfoin, and six pound of clover and 

 trefoil, to give a crop the first year. 



i802. It got full of rubbish, did not answer, and was 

 ploughed up after four or five years. The method he in- 

 tends to pursue is, to turnip his land for two years, both 

 fed off with sheep, and to lay down with buck-wheat in 

 June ; sowing four bushels of sainfoin per acre ; he did 

 this some years ago, and it is now the best sainfoin on his 

 farm. He has now 28 acres under the second crop of tur- 

 nips, to be thus laid down. 



Mr. Bevan has sown sainfoin with rye to good efFefl. 

 Mr. Ward, of West Harling, has done the same, and 

 got fine crops. 



Mr. M. Hill sowed sainfoin on a deep gravel, and it 

 gave, in the third year, one load and a half per acre ; from 

 the repeated failure of seeds, he has been induced to lay 

 dow^n this spring 48 acres. The barley drilled first at six 



z 2 inches, 



