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years before it need be sown again. It is either given to 

 the horses whole, as it is, or it is chopped up in a chaff 

 cutter, i en hackelse-kista, stalk and all, very small, 

 and so is mixed with oats, baiting, agnar, beans or 

 pease, and is afterwards given to the horses, who thrive 

 perfectly well on it. They cannot cut the Sain Foin here 

 more than once in the summer. Clover is also very much 

 sown here, but it does not last so long as Sain Foin, 

 because it must be sown with wheat or something else, 

 and a parcel of land is sown time about. They hardly 

 ever carry more than two cuts, slattar, before it is sown 

 again, nor is it worth while to let it stand longer, for 

 when one has cut it two years or two summers, it loses, 

 tyner af,* so much after that that they can scarcely go on 

 to it with the scythe, lian, therefore when they have mown 

 it two summers, and very often only one, the field is 

 ploughed up anew, and sown with Clover, but although 

 it cannot stand long before it must be sown again, yet it 

 saves a great deal of inconvenience, above all in this 

 district, where no ordinary kind of grass will [T. II. p. 58] 

 thrive ; because this Clover, the first summer it is mown, 

 gives such a very great abundance of a rich and good 

 hay. As a food for horses it is most excellent, but not so 

 for cows, although it is true they milk a good deal 

 from it, yet the milk acquires some particular flavour in 

 consequence, and is not nearly so agreeable as when the 

 cows are fed with good grass. One can particularly 

 easily recognise this Clover-smack in the milk, if the cows 

 are allowed to go out in the summer and eat the green 

 clover. At that time one must take care that they are 

 not allowed to eat as much as they like of it, for the 

 clover tastes so nice to them, that they cannot stop, but 



* ' Tine, to lose v. Jameson. Tine, tyne, and Suppt. Tine.' J. T. 

 Brockett. Glo;s. of N. country words. Newcastle, 1846. [J. L.] 



