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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    Your land mud be well ploughed and harrowed, and cleaned from all forts of weeds, as you do for barley : and the flronger the land is, the more ploughings and harrowings it will require to mellow and fweeten it. When you have got your land clear of weeds, and thoroughly mellowed and fweetened, by often ploughing and harrow- * 4 • V ing; you mull, in fine weather, fowyour Lucern feed, broad call, (not in drills) * • • • « about fourteen pounds to an acre. It is likewife necefiary to manure your land before the lafit ploughing ; not with old rotten fluff, as is ufual, but with frefh liable dung that has been thrown up in a hill three or four weeks to ferment ; and when it is in full fermentation, you are to lay