An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 878 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. 5576. There are no var
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 878 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. 5576. There are no varieties of the lucern deserving the notice of a cultivator. 5577. Tf7<a< is called the ycUouj lucern is the MedicAgo faXchXa { en famille, or Litzerne dc Suide, Fr. fig. 776.), a much hardier and coarser plant, common in t^f^ several parts of Kngland, but not cultivated any where except in some ^i^^ J1. poor soils in France and Switzerland. S.')78. Mediciii^o manili'da and murica/a are cultivated in France, but to a very limited extent on poor soils. M. lupulina (lupuline, or Minettc dorie, Fr.) resembles our well known hop trefoil, black (from its seeds) nonsuch, or yellow clover; but it is seldom cultivated in Britain. 5579. The soil for lucern must be dry, friable, inclining to sand, and with a subsoil equal to it in goodness. Unless the subsoil be good and deep, it is in vain to attempt to cidtivate lucern. According to Young, the soils that suit lucern are all those that are at once dry and rich. If, says he, they possess these two criteria, there is no fear but they will produce large crops of lucern. A friable deep sandy loam on a clialk or white dry marly bottom is excellent for it. Deep putrid sand warp on a dry basis, good sandy loam on clialk, dry marl or gravel, all do well; and in a word, all soils that are good enough for wheat, and dry enougli for turnips to be fed on the land, do well for lucern. If deficient in fertility, they may be made up by m
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