IV.] PLANTING. 



end of May 5 and^ if the ground were rich, even 

 so late as the first week of June. Vetches, or, as 

 they are otherwise called, tares, might be sowed 

 upon a wheat stubble, fed off by sheep in Maj-^ 

 the plough following close to the heels of the 

 fold_, and with a deep and clean ploughing, and 

 good harrowing and rolling, an excellent crop of 

 corn might succeed. Now, this is what I venture 

 to say may be done upon any good land, which 

 has not a wet bottom. A crop of broad cast 

 wheat, coming off in August, a crop of winter 

 tares fed off in May, and a crop of Corn to 

 come off at the end of the ensuing October, form- 

 ing, in consequence of its summer tillage, the 

 best possible preparation for wheat again, if you 

 choose it. 



52. This is what cannot be done by the means 

 of any other routine of crops. The vetches would 

 not, indeed, be a heavy burthen ', they would not 

 be any thing like a full crop of green food, if fed 

 off at the time here pointed out ; but they would 

 be something ; they would keep the sheep from 

 the clover-fields and the meadows much longer 

 than they can be usually kept ; and thus, an addi- 

 tion would be made to the quantity of hay upon 

 a farm. You cannot, by the greatest possible 

 care and exertions, do more than get stubble tur- 

 nips after wheat ; and they must be all consumed 

 by the middle of April, if you mean to sow barley. 



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