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ACRieULTURAL ESSATS. 



August, after the ground has been well prepared. The tbi- 

 iowing season the crop is to be kept clear of weeds by the har- 

 row ; and after that it will grow so strongly as to keep down 

 all other growths. 



CicHORY, {Chichorium Intibiis,) commonly called Wild Suc- 

 cory, has been but lately cultivated ; but on poor blowing sands 

 and weak dry soils, Mr. Young thinks it superior to any other 

 plant, and that if sown with burp.et and cock's-foot, it will form 

 a layer for six or seven years, far exceeding those made of tri- 

 foil, ray grass, and white clover. It grows more luxuriantly 

 than burnet, lucern, or saintfoin, and may be often cut for soil- 

 ing during t»S olIir.nier. twice during the first season, and 

 three or four times afterwards, or every second month till Oc- 

 tober. It may be made into hayjwhich is coarse, but tolerably 

 nourishing. Its principal use, however, is for soiling and for 

 sheep feeding, as it is less injured by close feeding than most 

 other vegetables. 



Mr. Young advises that it be drilled at the distance of nine 

 inches on poor lands, or twelve when the soil is richer, after the 

 soil has been first duly mellowed. In this case it will be great- 

 ly improved by an occasional scarifying. It may also be sown 

 with oats, in the broad cast ;. but for soiling, it is best sown in 

 the fore part of the season, and lightly harrov, ed in. It pro- 

 duces plenty of head, wliicli is easily gathered. 



Spurry, [Spangula Arvonsis,) has been considerably culti- 

 fated in Flanden, on account of its growing very late in the 

 fall, and even during winter, and afior-^liug gcod food for sheep 

 and cows. Cattle are very fond of it. It flowers from July to 

 •Sei^tembc!*,' anu i-? best suited to sandy and other dry soils. 



The bush vkich, {Vicia Sepium,) is said to shoot earlier in 

 spring than any other artificial grass ; it grows late in autumn, 

 and in Great Britain retains its verdure through the winter. 

 Mr. Sawyer states the amount of its produce, per acre, to have 

 been about twenty-four and an half tons of green foilder, equal 

 to about four and an half tons of dry hay. The culture of this 

 plant was long since recommended by Anderson, but the prin- 

 cipal difnculty seems to be in collecting the seeds, as the pods 

 burst when ripe, and thus scatter them before they can be con- 

 veniently gathered. Doct. Withering, also, observes, that the 

 see^s are often destroyed by the larvce of a species of catela- 

 bus, 



Tares, ( Vicia Sativa,) a kind of Pea. Of these there are 

 two varieties, the winter and spring tares. The spring tare i^ 

 to be sown as early in the spring as'the ground can be well pre- 

 pared_, and the winter tare early in September.; each at the 



