French cultivators have often given to the lucern the name of sainfoin, which belongs properly to Onobrychis sativa; and this transposition still exists, for instance in the neighbourhood of Geneva.
Targioni, however, who could not be mistaken on this head, says that the cultivation oflucern was maintained in Italy, especially in Tuscany, from ancient times.
Lucern and Liquorice Roots are dyed and varnished in the same manner: those of Marsh-mallows, from the loss of their Mucilage, considerably diminish in thickness during the time they stand in infusion.
The banner of Lucern was now for a time in imminent danger, the avoyer having been severely wounded, and several of the principal leaders slain.
Four plows were kept steadily at work, and the ground was sown with alfalfa or lucern as fast as it was got into condition.
Upon these we shall be able to raise four or five crops a year; and one crop in particular, the alfalfa, a sort of lucern for fattening the cattle in time of drought, when the grass is all parched up.
If thin seeding and thorough soil stirring are practiced, lucern usually grows well, and with such treatment should become one of the great dry-farm crops.
Originally, lucerncame from the hot dry countries of Asia, where it supplied feed to the animals of the first historical peoples.
In good years from fifty to one hundred and fifty dollars may be taken from an acre of lucern seed.
Many farmers find it more profitable to grow dry-farm lucern for seed.
Moreover, its long; tap roots, penetrating sometimes forty or fifty feet into the ground, suggest that lucern may make ready use of deeply stored soil-moisture.
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.
The question of soil fertility will become more important with the passing of the years, and the value of lucern as a land improver will then be more evident than it is to-day.
However, at the present, the principles of lucern seed production are not well established, and the seed crop is uncertain.
On these considerations, alone, lucern should prove itself a crop well suited for dry-farming.
In fact, it has been demonstrated that where conditions are favorable, lucern may be made to yield profitable crops under a rainfall between twelve and fifteen inches.
Lucern or alfalfa Next to human intelligence and industry, alfalfa has probably been the chief factor in the development of the irrigated West.
In Asiatic and North African countries, lucern is frequently cultivated between rows throughout the hot season.
In the second part of the Concert, which we did not stop to hear, for we were now satiated to nausea, we were informed that a Clergyman of Lucern and the worthy Tollmann executed a Violin-Rondo in a very effective manner.
He cannot do more than assert that "Lucern is medicago sativa," but he can assent to the proposition, "That lucern is medicago sativa is true.
In a moment they rallied; Uri replaced Lucern as the head of the phalanx, and again they dashed at the mail-clad line before them.
The 'Lucern Hammer' was like a halberd, but had three curved prongs instead of the hatchet-blade: it inflicted a horrible jagged wound.
Yet the three cantons seventy-one years before put the same number in the field, and the populous state of Lucern had now joined them.
So hardly were the Confederates now pressed that the Schultheiss of Lucern even thought of surrender, and planted his halberd in the ground in token of submission.
Forty-four members of the Cantonal councils of Lucern fell in the fight: 'The contingent of Lucern had crossed the lake of the four Cantons in ten large barges, when setting out on this expedition: it returned in two!
Cultivating lucern and potatoes is, without doubt, a dignified and useful employment, but it is not likely to content a man who has played a great part, and is conscious that he is still able to do so.
Lucern (Medicago sativa), called by the natives alfa or alfalfa, is reared in great abundance throughout the whole of Peru, as fodder for cattle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lucern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
