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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67755	The improvement improved by a second edition, or, The great improvement of lands by clover, or, The wonderful advantage by, and right management of clover by Andrew Yarranton ...	Yarranton, Andrew, 1616-1684.	1663 (1663)	Wing Y16; ESTC R9553	21,827	63

I leave to your convenience What Cattle are fittest to graze it with CLover-Grass is food for all sorts of Cattle but you must have a special care when you first put Oxen or Kine into it I have heard of some Oxen and Kine that have been put in well and have been dead in four or five hours but a little care doth prevent the danger When you put them in for the first day let them be in about a quarter of an hour the second day half an hour the third day an hour the fourth day an hour and a half the fifth day about two houres and the sixth day three hours and the seventh day you may let them stay in without danger you must also have a care that your Kine or Oxen drink not of two hours after they come out of the Clover for this Grass is so sweet a feeding for them that drinking immediately after it they are in danger of swelling It is excellent feeding for Oxen and Kine and it is observed that Kine do give more and better Milk in Clover-Grass then they do in any other and the Butter and Cheese is much better then that which is raised upon ordinary Grass Horses you may put into it at any time without any danger and it doth feed and cure them of many diseases Sheep may be put in without danger and indeed it is a very expeditious way of fatting Sheep Clover-Grass will be ready for them in the beginning of March and you will finde them fat in ten weeks some men have made good profit by this way of feeding them Swine you may put in at any time without danger who feed and grow wonderfully in it To those persons who want meat for their Swine this food will be very acceptable and as it is a certain cheap and speedy way of feeding Swine so it is observed that Swine do very much improve the Land their dung being an excellent manure As for the Hay of Clover in the winter we see that our Cattle will forsake our meadow-Hay for it and it is with us accounted as good for a horse as ordinary Hay and Provender I do not approve of grazing Clover in the winter for I know it doth it much hurt and cutting it in a very dry time is injurious to it To conclude this point of feeding Reader let me tell thee if thou hast a good parcel of Land that is fit for Clover and hast money to stock it as it ought to be a better opportunity of increasing thy estate thy heart cannot desire I know many men that have made great advantage by Clover yet have not made that profit by it which they might have done for want of a sufficient stock to put upon it and some men that upon very good Farms could not keep so many Cattle as their tillage did require not having meadow-grounds that can now keep with Clover many more though they have much more of their ground in tillage then they had before I might tell you how it feeds Geese and Turkeys but if any of it grow neer your houses you will soon be sensible of it and I am sure it will save much of that Corn which is given to that sort of Poultry The Authors readiness to give any man further satisfaction IN my last I told you that if any Gentleman or other person desire to be further satisfied in any thing relating to this Husbandry I should be ready to contribute my best assistance in order thereunto if they please to come to my house at Ashley in the Country of Worcester there I shall be ready to shew them what experiments I have made and to give them such visible arguments of the truth of what I have printed that may convince the most incredulous This my offer I shall God willing make good and in my absence Mr. Robert Vicaris my next Neighbour will be ready to perform what I have here promised I would have given you an account in this book of many more experiments and observations but that it would too much enlarge this second Edition and in that I designed this also chiefly for Worcester-shire Stafford-shire Shrop-shire and some parts of Hereford-shire such quotations are the less necessary for great part of the Lands in these Counties are so fit for this Husbandry that the management of it is the less difficult and men generally begin to be expert in it yet such hath been the importunity of some for my first Book of which I have none left that forceth me with this enlargement to reprint it before I have performed what in it I promised viz. A second part of the discourse of Clover and of other Lands that are fit for it the delay of which I hope will be recompenced by those trials that are now on foot upon such Lands for if there were none of those four sorts of Land before mentioned in England I should yet make no doubt of raising a very great profit by Clover upon many sorts of Clay or clayish Land and this I hope in a short time to make appear though this Land requires somewhat more of art and patience and may in our first essayes give us more discouragements then those Lands that are every way fitted for this husbandry But my present business is to give my Country-men a remedy for his Gravelly Dry Sandy or Rie Land which is worn out with tillage and liming I know it is a common disease in these parts where lime is cheap and the common cure is as bad as the disease it self But Clover you will finde to be a certain speedy profitable cure for such Lands for it yeelds you a great advantage in the interim that is for three or four years and in the fifth year after is as fit for Corn as though it had lain in Grass twenty years And as Clover is fittest for Land that is thus become useless and almost uncapable of any other Husbandry with profit so this Land is fittest for Clover and that which renders it unprofitable to us viz. that it is unapt to natural Grass the two first years doth render it most profitable to us in Clover And as lime by its speedy working downward doth soon get through the uppermost part of the earth which longer retaineth our other soyle so the Clover doth shut its root straight downward and deep in the earth whereby it partaketh of that vertue which otherwise would be lost being got without the reach of other roots and this may be one reason why Land that hath been limed beareth much more Clover then the same Land when it hath not had lime upon it besides the lime doth much mellow and open our Land whereby the Clover hath the better advantage of taking root I intended here to add a few Letters about this Husbandry but because they are long I print only this ensuring from an ingenious Gentleman SIR SInce we have had such convincing experience and have tasted the