34* LUCERNE. 



Mr. Bloomfield, at Harpley, broke up a sainfoin 

 layer in i8o2, by one ploughing, and got a fine tilth for 

 wheat by much scarifying. 



Sir M. FoLKES has given much attention to sainfoin, 

 but not with success ; he has prepared for it by two crops 

 of turnips in succession, botli fed on the land by sheep, 

 yet twitch and blubber-grass over-ran the crop in a few 

 years, and some in that case has been spoiled in three or 

 four: he has been careful not to feed it with sheep; and 

 he has harrowed it the third year severely, cross and cross, 

 and from corner to corner, yet without destroying the 

 blubber. By reason of this circumstance the culture does 

 not flourish at all. When broken up it is fallowed for 

 wheat, and the crop generally good. 



SECT. XIX. — LUCERNE, 



Was cultivated, very successfully, thirty years ago, by 

 Sir John Turner, at Warham, on a turnip sandy loam, 

 of the rent of 7s. 6d. an acre: he sowed it broad-cast 

 after turnips, and without corn. Every spring he har- 

 rowed it severely, till it carried the appearance of a fallow; 

 manuring, at the same time, with six loads an acre, of 

 rotten dung. It was cut regularly every five weeks, and 

 has been often known to grow from 22 to 26 inches in 28 

 days. It maintained five horses per acre, from the middle 

 of April to Michaelmas: this, at only 2s. per horse per 

 week, is 13I. an acre — at 4s., 26I. 



Mr. Allen, at Stanhow, had drilled lucerne at one 

 foot, wliich succeeded well on a good loamy sand, on a 

 clay marie bottom. 



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