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other exhausting crops, without resting and refresh- 

 ing them by a regular rotine, or succession of crops, 

 and thus have reduced your fall >w grounds below 

 the advantage of tillage with a potatoe fallow ; you 

 may recover such lands in one season, by sowing 

 early in June, or July, from one to two bushels of 

 buck-wheat to the acre, upon a deep ploughing, and 

 when your crop is in full bloom in July, or August, 

 roll down the buck-wheat with a common farm roller, 

 or where this is wanting, you may perform the same 

 operation with the back of your harrow, (giving it an 

 additional weight as occasion may require.) This 

 should be done by laying off your field into lands, 

 as you intend to plough, so that your plough may not 

 be choaked by crossing, or meeting the heads of 

 your buck-wheat. Care should be taken to bury 

 your crop as deep as possible, that the buck-wheat 

 may all be covered, and the depth of your soil im- 

 proved by the fermentation. The heads of the buck- 

 wheat which may appear uncovered upon the field, 

 may be prevented from seeding by one or two light 

 harrowings. This crop will undergo a strong fermen- 

 tation, and prepare your old tired fallows for a suc- 

 cessful crop of winter grain. If your field is of a 

 light sandy soil, you may sow rye, or even wheat 

 upon the tops of your buck-wheat furrows. In the 

 season of sowing, drag in your seed with a long 

 toothed drag, or cover your seed with the plough, 

 as you choose. If you have a clay, or stiff soil, you 

 may cross- plough in August, and proceed in the usual 

 way of sowing; both will answer well. This pro- 

 cess wyi prepare your field for a clover crop, (see 

 article Clover,) which may be cut for hay, or rolled 

 and ploughed in when in full bloom, after the manner 

 of the buck-wheat, and thus prepare your fields for 

 any successful tillage you may choose. 1 cannot say 

 from experience, that the English white potatoes may 

 be planted with success upon the top of your buck- 

 wheat dressing; but as the potatoes will not exhaust 



