LUCERNE. 



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Mr, FovvELL, cf Sneiierton, to Arthur Young, 

 Esq. 



I beg you will communicate to the Board of Agricul- 

 ture, the following experiment, on feeding horses with 

 green lucerne. 



In the summer of 1797, I fallowed n piece of land 

 of seven acres, being part of a farm belonging to the 

 Right Honourable the Earl of Albemarle, situated ia 

 the parish of Snettcrton, in the county of Norfolk, and 

 in my occupation. The soil a sandy loam, upon a clay 

 marie bottom, worth to rent, about 15s. an acre, exclu- 

 sive of tvthe. 



The above land, in June of the before-mentioned 

 year, was sown with trrnips, which were well hoed; the 

 following spring it was properly prepared, and the last 

 week in April, was sown with six pecks an acre, of bar- 

 ley, and also with 20lb. of lucerne and 41b. of clover an 

 acre, broad-cast, which were harrowed in with the corn. 

 In the summer of 1799, the grass produced by the lucerne 

 and clover-seed, was mown and made into hay, and the 

 after-grass fed with cattle. The following summer ( 1800) 

 the clover disappeared, and left an abundant crop of lu- 

 ceine, a part of which was given green to horses, and the 

 remainder mown twice, and made into hay ; but as no re- 

 gister was made, I cannot state any particulars. 



In the summer of 1801, I determined to keep an zc- 

 curate account of a certain cjuantity, the result of whicl> 

 "was as follows: 



On the nth day of May I began mowing 4 acres 

 I rood and 24 perches of the above lucerne, which I had 

 purposely divided otF, and applied it by feeding ten cart- 

 horses, in a walled-in yard. There was neither hay nor 

 2 4 corn 



