Cultivation of Arable Land. Luccrn Time and Method of f owing, sr, 



in general vegetate in the mod perfect manner when new. The proport: ~ 

 feed that is necefTary is variable, according to the nature of the land a 

 manner in which the crop is cultivated. In the broadcad method, which h 

 found very fuccefsful, from eighteen to twenty pounds may be proper, vv.u.c ^u 

 that of the drill it will be confiderably lefs, according to the didances at -which the 

 operation is performed. In two-feet equididant rows the ufual allowance is about 

 fix pounds ; in thofe of eighteen inches, about eight pounds j in thcfe of twelve 

 inches, ten or twelve pounds ; and in nine-inch rows, which are by much the belt, 

 trom twelve to fixteen pounds may be neceflary. 



Time and Method of Sowing. The mod proper feafon for putting this fort of crop 

 into the ground is as early as can be done in the fpring months, as in this way 

 plants may be fully edablifhed before the feafon becomes too hot. The latter end 

 of March for the more fouthcrn diftricts may be the mod proper period, and the 

 beginning of the following month for thofe of the north. When fown late there is 

 more danger of the plants being dcdroyed by the fly, as has been obferved by Mr. 

 Tull. If the plants be intended to be tranfplanted out in the garden method, it 

 will alfo be the bed practice to fow the feed-bed as early in the fpring as the frods 

 will admit, in order that they may be drong and fit to fet out about Augud. 



With regard to the mode of putting in the crop, it mould vary with the circum- 

 dances of the foil, and the mode of after-management that can be adopted with 

 the mod convenience. Where much attention cannot be bedowed in the bulinefs 

 of hoeing and keeping the crop clean, the bed method is that of fowing the land 

 broadcad; though in this method the crop may not lad fo long in the ground. 

 But in cafes where the crops are capable of being kept in a fufficiently clean con 

 dition by repeated hoe culture, the drill may be more advifable, efpecially at narrow 

 didances. Some, however, think it the bed method in all cafes.* 



The practice of tranfplanting can, perhaps, only be done in particular cafes, on 

 fmall pieces of deep land that are in great heart, and require the plants in confe- 

 quence to dand thin and regular upon the ground, as in this mode they become 

 large and of vigorous growth. In foils that are inclined to moidure at fome depth 

 below the furface, it may be an ufeful method of keeping the roots of the plants 

 from being injured by their penetrating too deeply, as is more the cafe when the 

 plants rife from feed.f 



The feed may be fown either alone or with grain crops, in the fame manner as 



* Kent s Hints. t Annals of Agriculture, vol. XXV. 



