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stupidity almost miraculous, that there should exist such a number of cultivators of poor, shal- low, stony soils, who totally neglect it, notwith- standing it would produce upon the worst of their Jand, more than a ton of hay per acre, with a con- siderable after-growth into the bargain. On fair calculation, they will find very little of their hus- bandry equal to that in profit.

Saintfoin will grow good crops, from ten to fif-

teen years, and will then afford a sheep pasture for several years afterwards; but it must be wrong to suffer it to occupy the soil any longer than it is productive. It is usuallyshut upin the spring, and mowed for hay, and then shut up, for late after- feed; but sheep should not be suffered to remain upon it after the frost has set in, lest by biting too close they damage the root. This grass should be mowed early, before it is full blown, not only that being constantly mown, it may not be too muchex- hausted, but that the hay maynot be too stalky and sapless. Saintfoin-hay is asserted by many, to be the most nutritious of all others, for horses, which, it is pretended, will work well upon it with very little, or even without, corn; but this I can by no means warrant upon my own experience. On the most proper soils, saintfoin will sometimes produce a full crop the first year, but generally, that does not happen until the third, or fourth, the first and second being only a load per acre, or half a crop: on this account, in some parts of Kent, they sow clover mixed with it, with the judicious view of obtaining a weightier growth of clover at first, than they could expect of saintfoin, which

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