g4 A©RlC«Li;iRAL E&SATB. 



that in which it has long been sown, wiU not answer well, as it 

 will be too long in ripening. ^ ,. . , 



When a soil natural to the production of wheat becomes too 

 much exhausted, the farmer who can apply a suitable quantity 

 of vegetable manure, will be thereby enabled to insure a good 

 crop But as the economy of saving and preparing manure 

 composed of vegetable substances, decayed or decomposed, has 

 not yet been much attended to in this country, other means 

 may be successfully resorted to. One of these is what is cal- 

 led rreen dressing. This is done by turnmg under with the 

 plough a growth of green vegetables, for the purpose of manur- 



'In^Gr'eat Britain, and in ^ome parts of our country buck 

 wheat is much used for this purpose. When this is to be aone 

 the land which is intended for a crop of wheat, should be 

 lughed up in the month of May, instead of the time usually 

 practiced, after the first hoeing of corn; and about half a 

 bushel of buckwheat to the acre, sown and lightly cove ed 

 with a bush, so as not to uncover any of the vegetable anb 

 ...tances that may be turned under with the plough ; and ^^ hen 

 in blossom, run a roller over it exactly in the way ^t is « ^e 

 ploughed under. By that means, it may be more effectually 

 S)VP?pd with The plough. Aft^^r it ha« h^.n turned under 

 Xut twenty days or a month, it will be rotten, and ma pro- 

 nerstate to be ploughed again to receive the grain intended 

 to be sown If the buckwheat, before it is sown, is wet, 

 Ind as much gypsum as will adhere to the grain, strewed oyer 

 ft the ^rowt!/ of it will be much larger, and of course the 

 quantity of manure thereby increased. u ;» 



^Another vegetable, proper for the green dressing culture, i« 

 red clover. This too should be turned under with the plough 

 when in full blossom ; if the farmer cannot dispense with the 

 Top of clover for feeding his stock, still he will find by plough- 

 inVunder what remains of the clover, will ftirnish him with a 

 considerable supply of manure for his crop of wheat. 



If the soil is dfy and sandy, gypsum should be sovyn on the 

 €lover, and in a good season, a good crop of wheat may, by 



''Tn moToV'tL';^'^^^^^^^ in the northern and middle 



States, a considerable portion of the lands which are summer fal- 

 lowed are lands which have been considerably reduced by too 

 freq lent cropping, and some benefit is expected from the ma- 

 nure which mW he derived from the small quantity of grass and 

 other vegetable substances which are turned under ^vith the 

 plough; and for tj« rest of the food necessary for the success of 



