AGRICULTURAL TEXT-BOOK. 



1 to 2 bushels of Tares, and 1 bushel of oats arc enough. 

 Light or poor soils require more seed. The Hopetown, or 

 White-flowered Tare, is considered the most valuable variety. 

 When intended for fodder, Tares are usually cut and fed to 

 Btock in stables or yards. If intended for seed they may be 

 treated as pease, being cut with a scythe. If fodder is wished 

 for, sowing should take place in rotation : and the plant be used 

 after the pods are formed, but long before the seeds become 

 ripe. 



380. LUPINES are grown with us as a garden flower, but in 

 Italy are used both as food, and to plow under as a green ma 

 nure, a practice derived from the ancient Romans. The flavor 

 is said to be coarse arid bitter. They flourish in light sandy 

 lands, but can be of no value to us. 



