•*•• l ^H rough, branched, and clothed with leaves 

 K^T; tis found wild in dry calcareous 

 iBfiS and in most parts of Europe of similar 

 ■*-L« imperature. It has been long extensively 

 '^Tun many parts of the European Continent as 

 «*2tti te for Clover, and during the hue war, when 

 decrees prevented the importation 

 *JE articles, the dried roots were ground and 

 i^Soughout Germany instead of Coffee. Many m- 

 SSTSb at the present time cultivating it in this 

 Sf for the sole sake of the roots, which they dry 

 f^tatndsell to the grocers, who mast i a, ili.-v 

 Scoffee; but so great are th • merits oi v h con as 



owever poor ; and the mode of cul- 

 |*nd requires deep 

 t April the seed is drilled in rows 

 rt, being well hoed, singled, and 

 ummer, and the plants will continue 



THE AGR ICULTURAL GAZE TTE. 



Young obtained s 



He saw it p' 

 3 of Lombardy 



S: 



it is known by its blue flowers, 



talks renders it easily to be 



completely in a good soil. It 

 ingle ploughing in the spring, 



• 



Sll 



ften dries up every other vegetable pro- 

 support themselves against the winds 

 t. The quickness of its growti . ah >ve 



inter food, greedily devour fresh 

 three, and even four regular 



weighed the produce of an arpent 



Ower * S ' »° r l ° 4 * tons per acre ' lne P roduct of 



- ' 

 Ston l °^ he atnount °f 61,090 .i 



acre, and (in the above ratio of 



- " -■ . :-:;::,:. . iv.-,.. 



**.»« indeedlrom an^ h™ ^ ^^^ " 



^S^Lr* ^ws b MOTstom°lier 



^neL^l t0 jt ' ^^tnrhorses, 8 toThom green 

 *H»JJJ* r3 [' Pea P the mo^ salutary effects from 



f^A^\? f - rage> ****** CrettTtrieYtlTeex- 

 W *»ed»m; ♦ " vatu] g with several different plants; 

 I'-Jshc-ls of th. t . con seed, 

 -'foil, in the beginning of March, 

 Hiitlidh S acres ' where the soil was dry and 

 5*'»<i'a JS 1 ^ dee P P lo ughing early in the 

 J^ed IS V? u , the end of February ; he after- 

 t**.««*5n of a , els of Sainfoin seed and 6 bushels 



?!** ThiwIfP Burnet ' and sowed them on 



:■■-.■■■: 



J^was «hS i , le arti ficial meadow of quite anew 



fcsr^csjsy 7z of in h : 



"S^7lZ Chi< ^ ^ e Th e e at le a f d, J a U nd 'almost 

 !"**"> at tK Were stifled b y it- This meadow 

 W^^le t.,r £* , of Jul y» the weather proving 



«JL'S banS 2J? llt0 12 lbs. each, hound up 

 iSjVand f ° dder was e * ceIlent > and 



stimated to afford the most plenti 

 ,. annually recor 

 t«T many years. 



'f sowing, and an. t 



■ r, and :h it [--. i 



occupies soil deep enough f 

 longer without it. The se< 

 large seedsmen ; the culti 



tings it will yield, and its p 

 shed-feeding purposes, rem 

 rival nearly everything els 

 crop upon any farm where 



Home Correspondence. 



About Keeping Eqgs.—l i 

 and attentive h 

 some 20 or 30 dozen holes 

 eggs, buying them when thei 

 ing them upsid 

 means she kept them durin 

 i as well as f 

 another ^"nS? " 



: 





-ry if secured ii 



