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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    no feed from it ; which if you do, you muft, as I faid before, fave it from the fecond growth; the feed will be ripe in September, and muft be gathered by hand. When your plants are one year old, you muft, with a large harrow, go over your land as often as is fufficient to root up an¬ nual weeds and grafs. The harrow will not hurt the Lucern, the roots of it being very tough; this muft be done in dry weather, before it begins to fprout, which is very early in the fpring, that the weeds and grafs may die; and if you fee any patches of your ground where the feed mifcarried, you may fow a little feed and harrow it: if you give it a drefting, with rotten dung, at
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