lucerne

• “The grass called lucerne seems the best adapted to them, and you will find it grown on all ostrich farms for the special purpose of feeding the birds.”

  The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent

• “Of the legumes, alfalfa, also called lucerne, is the most popular crop; it's estimated that more than half of the hay harvested in the United States is alfalfa, or an alfalfa/grass mix.”

  Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com

• “I have increafed the flock proportionally to the improvement of the lucerne, which is not fo good the firft and fecond year as afterwards.”

  Internet Archive: The farmer's guide in hiring and stocking farms. Containing an examination of many subjects of great importance both to the common husbandman, in hiring a farm; and to a gentleman on taking the whole or part of his estate into his own hands. Also, plans of farm-yards, and sections of the necessary buildings

• “The great valleys of California do not produce much butter, and probably never will, though I am told that cows fed on alfalfa, which is a kind of lucerne, yield abundant and rich milk, and, when small and careful farming comes into fashion in this State, there is no reason why stall-fed cows should not yield butter, even in the San Joaquin or Sacramento valleys.”

  Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

• “Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub.”

  The Guardian: Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex

• “Digging in ten bags of mushroom compost, organic chicken poo fertilzer, laying down the lucerne.”

  614 - swings and round about

• “In the Registers kept at Cabul the rule is to set down in kind whatever part of the revenue is derived from the various sorts of corn, rice, cotton, pulse and seeds yielding oil which are usually cultivated and to enter in money the dues from all other produce as fruit, melon beds, straw, clover, lucerne, sheep, etc.”

  Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

• “Almonds, clovers and lucerne aren't so good for them; too many pesticides are being used.”

  Will Australia be the country that PROVES CCD in bees is due to pesticides and GM crops?

• “If these new settlers of yours are new to farming and have only 200ac to play with, may I suggest they block it into 4 x 50ac paddocks, sow 50ac oats (first late summer rain), 50ac wheat (early autumn sown dual purpose variety) and 50ac lucerne using a direct drill (early spring).”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » Calling all Texans…

• “A road train loaded with swaying green bales of lucerne went by the other way.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

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