lucerne
noun
lucern
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a variation of
lucerne.
Example Sentences
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The land, fenced in for privacy, would produce in abundance holeus-millet, rice, and lucern for beasts.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Four ploughs were kept steadily at work, and the ground was sown with alfalfa or lucern, as fast as it was got into condition.
From Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Many farmers find it more profitable to grow dry-farm lucern for seed.
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe
Common corn or pop-corn, and later, Stowell's evergreen sweet corn, are the best for soiling cattle; but for early soiling, use lucern, or some other quick-growing, large grass.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
Another main cause of failure is the common idea that the lucern field needs little or no cultivation, when, in fact, the alfalfa field should receive as careful soil treatment as the wheat field.
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe
