. 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. Agriculture. 870 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt III. 5513. The cojmnnn Cos lettuce (Lactuca satlva L.) has been grown for feeding pigs,
. 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. Agriculture. 870 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt III. 5513. The cojmnnn Cos lettuce (Lactuca satlva L.) has been grown for feeding pigs, and other purposes. Arthur Young informs us, in his Calendar of Hushnndry, that he first observed the sowing of lettuces for hogs practised, on a pretty regular system, on the farm of a very intelligent cultivator (not at all a whimsical man) in Sussex. He had every year an acre or two, which afforded a great quantity of very valuable food for his sows and pigs. He adds, that it yields milk amply, and all sorts of swine are very fond of it; and he thinks that the economical farmer who keeps many hogs should take care to have a succession of crops for these animals, that his carts may not be for ever on the road for purchased grains, or his granary opened for corn oftener than is necessary. To raise this sort of cn^p, the land should have been ploughed before the winter frosts, turning in by that earth twenty loads of rich dung per acre, and making the ridges of the right breadth to suit the drill-machine and horse-hoes, so that in the month of March nothing more may be necessary than to scarify the land, and to drill the seed at one foot equi- distant, at the rate of four pounds of seed per acre. Where the stock of swine is large, it is proper to drill half an acre or an acre of lettuce in April, tiie land having been well manured and ploughed as directed .ibove, being also scuffled in February and March, and well harrowed, repeating it before drilling : and at this period, t
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