390 Cultivation of Arable Land. Tares After-management of. 



And in order that the land may be in better order for the fcythe, a light roller 

 may be palled over the crops, when the feafon is tolerably dry, in the very early 

 fpring months.* 



When the parts of crops of this fort that have run to feed, or any others, are 

 left for the purpofe of a fupply, it is the ufuai practice to cut and ivad them in 

 the fame manner as for peas, in order to their being afterwards houfed or Hacked, 

 and threfhed out in the winter feafon. 



In making tares into hay, more attention is neceffary than in thofe of moft of 

 the artificial grafles, as wet is more injurious to them, and they require more fun 

 and air : but in other refpecls they demand the fame cautious management in or 

 der to prefervethe foliage from being loft. The time for cutting for this purpofe 

 is when the bloffoms have declined, and they begin to fall flat.f When well made 

 the hay is of the molt nutritious quality. The produce in tare crops, as in thofe 

 of other forts, muft be different according to circumftances; but when they are 

 good, in the winter kinds it is commonly considerable. The writer of the Report 

 of the State of Agriculture in Middlefex ftates it as the refult of experience, having 

 frequently weighed green tares, to be twelve tons per acre; and when made into hay, at 

 about three tons; the value of the produce, eftimating it as if the whole were made 

 into hay, being in that diftrict from twelve to fifteen guineas the acre, and in 

 places where other forts of hay fell at fifty Ihillings or three pounds, at from feven 

 pounds ten millings to nine pounds. The fpring tare crops are in general lighter, 

 and more liable to be injured by a dry feafon than the winter. 



The produce in feed is likewife confiderable : by forne it is dated at from three to 

 fix facks ;J in other inftances forty bufhels or more have been obtained from the 

 acre. This fort of feed is greatly preferred by pigeons, and it may probably be 

 ufed for poultry with advantage. In the above ftatements the produce in green 

 food is undoubtedly large ; but from the fucculent nature and luxuriant growth of 

 the crops it cannot probably be much too high. 



In the application of tare crops, there can be little hefitation in pronouncing that 

 of foiling them withhorfes or other flock on the farm, as the moft advantageous 

 and beneficial method. The vaft advantage of this mode is rendered particularly 

 evident by the great lofs which we have juft noticed in converting them into hay. 

 In the practice of foiling much lofs may be fuftained by cutting the tares at too 

 early a period. 



* Report of Middlefex. f Synopfis of Husbandry. 



% Suffolk Report. Ibid, 



