C/.S6 Cultivation of Arabic Land. Tares Varieties of Winter and Spring. 



procuring anufeful fupply of green or other fodder for the confumption of horfes 

 or other defcriptions of flock. It has indeed been contended by an intelligent 

 cultivator,* that it &quot; may be made the means of enabling the arable farmer to fup- 

 port as much live flock as the grazier/ as while crops of this fort remain upon 

 the ground they afford larger fupplies of the beft kind of green food on the acre, 

 than the moft rich and fertile grafs lands ; and they may be taken from the ground 

 at fo early a period in the fummer feafon as, on the friable loamy foils, to admit 

 of a clean crop of turnips being obtained from the fame land in the fame year, and 

 of thofe of the more heavy kinds being fovvn with wheat. And while they are 

 capable of being raifcd withfuccefs on moft kinds of foils and fituations, they fup- 

 port and fatten cattle and fheep of different fizes and breeds in an expeditious 

 manner. Befides, they afford a good preparation for other forts of green crops, 

 and in that way keep up the fucceffions of fuch kinds of food for the fattening of 

 additional quantities of animals ; and in that way produce abundance of manure in 

 fituations where it could not otherwife be procured. In fhort, he fuppofes that by 

 a judicious combination of this plant with thofe of turnips, clover and faintfoin, 

 the poor downs, fheep-walks, and other wafte lands, may be rendered from ten, 

 to thirty times more valuable than they are at prefcnt. 



But, however fanguine thefe obfervations may be, there cannot be any doubt 

 but that the tare may be an ufeful object of cultivation in the view of improving 

 the land, as well as the fupporting of a larger flock, and a plant that ought to be 

 more generally grown in moft fituations, in proportion to the extent of the flock 

 that is kept. 



The common tare is diflinguifhed by writers on hufbandry into two forts, the 

 winter and fpring tare : the latter is probably a variety of the above fpecies. It is, 

 however, much lefs hardy in its habits than that of the former or fpring kind ; 

 the plants when wholly of this fort being capable of refifling the effects of the fe- 

 verefl winter feafons in this climate. 



In cultivating thefe plants, with a view to afcertain their difference in refpecl: to 

 hardnefs, the Rev. Mr. Laurents, of Bury in Suffolk, is flated by Mr. Young to 

 have made the following experiments: On the 3oth of September 1783 he fowed 

 feeds of the winter tare and of the fpring tare near to one another, in the fame foil 

 and expofure, and covered both with a coat of crumpled mould one inch deep. 

 The weather proving mild, the fpring tare foon made its appearance; and two 



* Mr. Middleton, 



