. The Canadian farmer's manual of agriculture [microform] : the principles and practice of mixed husbandry as adapted to Canadian soils and climate : comprising: the field; produce of the farm; stock raising and management; manufactures of the farm; dairy; diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs; farm buildings, modern machinery and implements : counsel to the immigrant-settler, Agriculture; Farms; Agriculture; Exploitations agricoles. vf f ' f» ii B<i ' I. I, ' I: * ' '.;â f '^ ill 'i ' k f I S! (; t. i': I \ H' i 1: I ", f ( ; f ;: 'I .h! il' |;j;. '?: I; I yli ;|: 27^ The Can
. The Canadian farmer's manual of agriculture [microform] : the principles and practice of mixed husbandry as adapted to Canadian soils and climate : comprising: the field; produce of the farm; stock raising and management; manufactures of the farm; dairy; diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs; farm buildings, modern machinery and implements : counsel to the immigrant-settler, Agriculture; Farms; Agriculture; Exploitations agricoles. vf f ' f» ii B<i ' I. I, ' I: * ' '.;â f '^ ill 'i ' k f I S! (; t. i': I \ H' i 1: I ", f ( ; f ;: 'I .h! il' |;j;. '?: I; I yli ;|: 27^ The Canadian Farmer's afford to be without. It yields a heavy weight of feed all the summer, of excellent quality, and one that does not require the expense of ploughing and re-seeding after each cutting, nor each year, as by proper management, and on suitable soils, it will re- niiiin profitable five years. " Its relative value, as compared with corn, is decidedly superior, our sheep and cattle not only preferring, but ' doing' much better on it. In fact, corn with me has not proved a very satisfactory boiling cropâcattle fed on it generally losing fleshâuntil we have all but given over growing it for that purpose. " The first hay we have this winter, that is the hay our calves and sheep prefer, is that with a little lucerne in it. Going on to the hay mow the other day, I saw a hole cut in it. Inquiring the reason, I ascertained that the shepherd had found where a load or two of hay, with a little lucerne sprinkled through it, had been mowed away, and that he had been getting it for his sheep, as they ate it better than good clover hay. " A rich, dry soil, with an open, porous subsoil, is the most con- genial to the growth of lucerne; but it will succeed well on any soil that will grow red clover to perfection. " The seed may be sown broadcast, or in drills ten to twelve inches apart. In England we generally followed the latter course, 30 that aftor each cutt
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