A practical treatise of cultivating lucern containing the methods as by experience are found to succeed. Including the practice used in several parts of France / By Bartholomew Rocque.

  • Rocque, Bartholomew.
Date:
1761
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Credit: A practical treatise of cultivating lucern containing the methods as by experience are found to succeed. Including the practice used in several parts of France / By Bartholomew Rocque. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    take the trouble to call at my- houfe, that experience teaches the contrary. To make hay of Lucern, you muff mow it as foon as the bloom appears, or rather fooner : you muft not fpread it as you do common grafs, but let it lie in the fwath as you do clover, and turn it in the fame manner ; otherwife the leaves will drop off. If you let it ftand too long before you mow it, the ftalks will be too hard for cattle to eat it, and it lofes much of its The hay is good for all forts of cattle; and when you feed horfes with it, you muft not give them their full allowance of corn; the Lucern anfwering, in a great mea-