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tages will ever be looked for in vain, upon acold barren clay, or without the seed being fresh and good, or without culture and manure, even on@ proper soil. One of the first objects is, to be sure the seed be good, which is seldom the case, Burnet belie a grass very little cultivated; and I have more than once been foiled in my endea- vours to raise a crop, from that circumstance. Burnet may be advantageously cultivated in drills, and treated precisely like lucern, a method which I have lately adopted. It may be sowed indifferently, either in spring, summer, orautumn. It frequently happens, that the Te is thin, until the third year; but afterwards, very luxuriant, fully covering the soil. Bubhet! isk ee of this ]

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country, growing Spontaneously in ma iny parts, particularly, as I have e heard, upon Salisbury Plain, whence an indication may be drawn of its prope soil: like lucern,. it defies drought in summer, which makes it valuable in another pom of view. The seed has been warranted as good for horses as corm; a consideration for those who may have the convenience of bruising it. Muosrarp.—This seed is-largely cultivated in the north, and upon a smailer scale in the county of Essex. It‘is among the risk crops; sometimes producing a very large profit, but attended with the aren ace of remaining everlastingly in the soil; that.consideration, however, a ee ifa man would resolve in future to apply the land to grass, and hoeing crops only. Mustard requires a soil of some sieney but dryand healthy, which must be reduced to the fineness of garden-mould,

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