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half, or three quarters of a bushel, or if your land 

 is poor, one bushel to the acre at this rime ; it is a 

 poor crop when considered in point of tillage, (unless 

 rolled down and ploughed in as manure, for a fallow 

 for winter grain,) or for the value of its grain ; but it 

 makes up one of the varieties of husbandry, will an* 

 swer upon some poor soils, in place of sor^ other 

 crop, and may with safety precede any of the crops 

 in a regular rotinc, excepting Indian-corn ; this grain 

 will not flourish after buck-wheat. 



No insect will injure your buck- wheat crop 5 bu: 

 your turnips are often exposed to the destructive fly, 

 which frequently ruin the crop. To secure your tur- 

 nip crop decidedly against the fly, steep your seed 

 12 or 24 hours, before sowing, in fish, or train-oil ; 

 Iraia oft' the oil from the seed, and roll the seed in 

 plaster; this will separate the seed from the glutinous 

 adhesion of the oil, render the casts free, and enrich 

 your crop ; all other steeps at times are said to fail ; 

 :his is not only cheap and easy, but is said never 

 :o fail ; it will always preserve the crop. 



The value of turnips as feed, either upon the 

 ground, or when pulled and housed, either for sheep, 

 ar cattle, I shall consider at large, under the article 

 Stock, when the season for tillage is over, and the 

 -armer has more leisure to read, and when his stock 

 will necessarily claim -his particular attention. 



Wheat. 



I have said very little upon the cultivation of wheat 

 by the use of compost, barn-yard, or other strong ma- 

 nures; they generally answer well upon a moderate 

 soil, for one or two crops; but when continued upon 

 die same fields, or used upon a rich soi!, the crops of 

 wheat are generally ruined by the rust on the straw, 

 (commonly called the blast.) Farmers are all full 

 well acquainted with the fact; but even the best wri- 

 ters are not agreed as to the manner in which the rust 

 js produced. They are generally agreed in this, that 



