CONTENTS, 



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Crops which it is cultivated after - 47 



Preparation of laml for - 48 



Time of sow ing - 52 



Quantity of seed - 53 



After-culture of the crop - 56 



Its produce - - - 57 



OATS, kinds of 58 



Preparation of land for 60 



Time of sowing - 61 



Proportion of seed - 62 



After-culture of the crop 63 



PEAS, kinds of - 64 



Soil and preparation for ibid. 



Time of sowing, and proportion of seed 65 



Modes of putting in the crop - 67 



Culture afterwards - - ibid. 



Methods of gathering them green . 68 



Reaping the crop - 70 



BEANS, kinds ofthem cultivated 72 



Soil and preparation for 73 



Time of sewing - 74 



Quantity of seed 75 



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Different methods of putting them in . 75 



Bean-drill proper . 77 



After-culture of the crop . 78 



Implements proper for this 79 



Improper practice of blendings 81 



Crops injured by the black dolphin ibid, 



By the blight - - ibid. 



Signs of their ripening - ibid . 



Methods of reaping, and of preserving the 



crop - - 82 



Modes of setting up - - ibid. 



Produce of crops of different kinds - ibid. 



The straw highly useful as food for animals ibid. 



For litter - ibid. 



Caving- chaff a good manger food for 



horses - - 83 



Application of the crop - - ibid. 



The stubble should be immediately removed, 



when wheat is sown after - ibid. 



This may be readily effected by spuddling ibid. 

 That practice most proper on heavy, ibid,, 

 and improper on light, hands - 



SECTION II. 



CULTIVATION OF ARABLE LANDROOT AND PLANT CROPS, 



PACE. 



ROOT AND PLANT CROPS 86 



What necessary in cultivation of ibid. 



POTATOES - - ibid. 



Nature and importance of - ibid. 



Capable of much improvement 87 



Most useful cultivated varieties of - ibid. 



Soils most proper fer 88 



Preparation for - 90 



Manures proper for - - 91 



Advantages of different sorts of - ibid. 



Quantity of necessary in different kinds 94 



Proper period of planting - - 95 



Dry season best - ibid. 



Seed proper for - ibid. 



What necessary in choice of - ibid. 



Cuttings 96 



Proper size of - ibid. 



Eyes or root-buds necessary in- 98 



Shoots sometimes used ibid. 



Less proper . - ibid. 

 Implements proper for cutting with^ where 



root-lxu s are used - - ibid. 



Scoops - - ibid. 



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Different sorts of 98- 



Different ways of plan ting - - 100 



Methods of planting general crops in 

 different districts . ibid. 



With the plough . ibid. 



With the spade - - 103; 



In the drill manner - 104 



After-culture of the crop - 106 



Best effected by the harrow and horse- 

 hoe - - - ibid. 

 Harrow proper for - 107 

 Double earth-boarded plough - ibid. 

 Common plough used in Lancashire 108 

 Harrowing depended on in plain-sur 

 face planting -. -- ibid. 

 Earthing wp objected to by some ibid.. 

 These objections not well-founded ibid. 

 Expences of cultivation - 109 

 Supposed advantages of plucking blossoms, 



not real - . 110 



Diseases; the curl - 111 N 



Its causes . - ibid*. 



Remedies; none effectual yet discovered 113 



