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until i come to treat on gardening generally ; I shall 

 then give the subject a particular discussion, both as 

 to the best practical modes of culture, and the best 

 practical calculations upon their value and use in 

 feeding. 



Let me close this number with one general exhor- 

 tation. Plant as much of your fallow grounds with 

 potatoes, as possible; break up, after mowing, such 

 sward as you design for tillage the next season, or 

 such as you would wish to sow with winter-wheat, 

 and plant it with the true English white potatoes ; 

 you will find your advantage in it. One hoeing will 

 answer upon the i^ard ground ; but two hoeings are 

 best for both sward and fallow grounds. 



Clover and Tillage. 



This has become a most valuable and important 

 branch of husbandry, both as an article of tillage and 

 feeding, particularly for the use of horses ; but I shall 

 defer all remarks upon its value in feeding, until I come 

 to the subject of Stock, and treat only in this number 

 upon the valae of clover as an article of tillage, and the 

 mode best adapted to its cultivation. The red clo- 

 ver strikes a deep tap-root like the carrot, and when 

 designed for tillage, should be sown separately, with- 

 out herds-grass, or any other mixture, 4 or 5 quarts to 

 the acre ; it may be sown broad-cast, after the man- 

 ner of wheat, in autumn, with the winter grains, or in 

 the month of March, upon the winter grains, or with 

 the spring grains, or upon the spring grains after they 

 have made their appearance, or even with buck- 

 wheat at midsummer : long experience has proved 

 all these modes to do well ; but the buck-wheat is 

 the most uncertain ; when the crop is thick and 

 stout, it is very apt to check and smother the young 

 clover, and leave its tender fibres exposed to the 

 irosts of winter, which often prove fatal to it. If you 

 are constrained to sow your clover with buck-wheat, 



