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394&#93; 29 4 ] BUR in the beginning of June, upon about six cdod of ground, which he mowed in the beginning of Aa- . and at Michaelmas t:r:s- planted them on about twenty luad ■ iun&, at the distance of one foot each ot to '•■ the heart. These pilots bore two crop-, of seed in the following year : the first about tlie middle of Jane, and the second about the middle of vr. En -the condyear, also, two good crops of were produced. As it could fter September, h - let ~d till t e next year, when it fihelterecFitself, and grew very well through" the whiter, except during a hard frost, when it, neverth; dried green. In March, it co- vered the ground, and was lit to receive cattle. It may be mown three times in one summer, just before it begins to flower. From "six rood of ground, he obtained 1 ISO pounds at the first cutting of the third year ; and was enabled to sell, in autumn 1/03, no less than three hundred I die seed ! The next authority is that of the Rev. Da vie s Lam be, Hector of Ridley, in Kent, whose letter to Dr. i leman, the first Secretary to the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, kc. is dated December 10, iy65. From the particulars ef i, t' at one
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duce' 3 of seed, and • loads of hay: that burnet-
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. cows», aiid sheep ; and that tl- also valuable, any other, for g cattle df'every description. Mr. Lambe is fully persuaded, that t wdl prove a very great ac- quisition to husbandry > ou many tots 3 but i»cre particularly for BUR
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I r p a stui e, c on s eq uen fly j t will be of great service to tJie farmer, as a constant crop he may depend on, and that without any expence for seed or tillage, after the first sow- ing j whereas turnips are precari- and expensive; and when they fail, the farmer is very often put to great inconveniencies to keep his stock. It liefer blows or hoves, catde, and will flourish upon poor light sandy, stoney, or chalky land. After the first year, it will weed itself, and be kept clean at little or no expence. The cultivation of burnet is nei- ther hazardous nor expensive: if the land be prepared, as is generally- done for a crop of turn ; ps, there is no danger of any miscarriage. It very frequently happens, that every farmer, who sows many acres with turnips, finds several of them pro- duce little or nothing; the rly, die dolphin, the black caterpillar, the •dry weather, or some unknown cause, often defeadng die industry and expence of the most skilful husbandman. When this happens, as is too often the case, it is advis- able to sow burnet, and in March and April following, he will have a fine pasture for his sheep and lambs. Mr. Wi Pitt, a respectable far^ mer of Pendeford, Staffordshire, when speaking of the culture of upland burnet, informs us, that one of his neighbours has observed in it this valuable property a - meadow-grass, that it preserves the hay from over-heating in die stack ; and that the hay of a mea- dow in his possession, which con- tains naturally a considerable por- tion of tliis grass, always comes from the stack of a fine fresh green colour,, -while his other hay, without. tliis