42 Cultivation of A ruble Land. Rys. Times of f owing. 



Dantzick rye. The former fort is the largeft, and the mod plump and hardy, 

 confequently the mod frequently grown by agricultors ; but the fpring kind may 

 often be employed withfuccefs. This grain is ib capable of refilling the effects 

 of the weather, that, when fown in the autumn, it is feldem much injured by the 

 mofl fevcrc winter. Iris more early in the fpring than wheat, and, though not 

 equally valuable, is more certain of producing a good crop. 



This fort of grain is capable of being cultivated on mod kinds of land ; but the 

 light dry fandy foils, that cannot be converted to the purpofe of wheat or barley- 

 crops, are perhaps the only ones .on which it can be grown to advantage, from: 

 their being the mofl adapted to it, and from few of them being fb light or poor 

 as not to afford good crops. It can, of courfe, only be introduced with fuccefs on 

 fuch lands as arc incapable of producing other forts of corn to advantage,, and where 

 the improved methods of cultivating wheat crops have not been had recourfe to.. 

 Even upon fome of the pooreft forts of fancy foil,, wheat is fuppofed in fome 

 didricts to be grown with more benefit to the cultivator, the quality of the land being/ 

 the fame, than this grain.* And frra fowls being lefs fond of it than mod other 

 forts of graii^ it may be the mod proper, to be cultivated on thofe portions of 

 grounds that are fitaatcd ciofe around the farm houfes. 



It is a kind of crop that ismodly grown after early-fed turnips, clover, peas, 

 and other fimilar products-, as well as after naked fallows, in particular cafes. 

 When cultivated on the cold and heavy kinds of foil,, the grain is much later in- 

 becoming ripe than on fuch as are dry and light- 



This crop, like that of wheat,, requires the land to be in a tolerable date ofpul- 

 verifation, and perfectly cleared from weeds. In many didricts,, when intended 

 to dand for a crop, it is the cudom t-o put it in upon fome fort of fallow; but: 

 where it is only to be fed- off by (beep, feldom more than one ploughing is given, 

 the land being broken up and fallowed for turnips immediately after the crop has 

 been fufficiently eaten down by fheep or other animals. It- is the practice in fome 

 places to apply manure immediately for this-crop ; but where the foil is in a fuit- 

 able date of preparation, and has not previoufly been too much deteriorated by the 

 growth of other grain crops, it may be more advifable, efpecially where it is not to 

 be fed off, to defer the application of the manure, in order that it may be employed 

 for the turnip or ether green crop thatmay fucceed it,., the ufe of manure being apt 

 to bring up weeds. 



Time of failing. The periods of putting this kind of crop into the foil are, in- 



* Young * corrected Report of Suffolk) p. 57, 



