Cultivation of Arable Land. Tdres-^After-management of. 3D I 



An intelligent agricultor is of opinion that the farmer s flock fhould be \vhol !y 

 fupported on them from the time they begin to blow till the blolibms begin to fall 

 off, and the formation of pods takes place. On account of the riik from wet, he 

 recommends that all the flock of a farm mould be foiled on them green, as it will 

 have the good effect of taking it off the grafs land long enough to allow of its 

 being mown for hay, and by this means the meadow hay be much increafed in 

 quantity, and there will not be fo much occafion for paflure, the tares abundantly 

 fupplying its place. Befides, at the time the cattle return from green tares, the 

 grafs land, in the mean time having been mown, may be ready to receive them.* 



It is further obferved that, as it would be wafteful in the extreme to turn live 

 ftock into a field of tares, as their treading and lying down would do great mifchief 

 to the crop, even by feeding it in fmall patches hurdled off, the moft advifable 

 method would be to mow the tares of the firfl half acre, and to carry the produce 

 into the fla uies, cow- houfes, and fold-yards, or on to poor land to be confumed by 

 flock, then to hurdle the growingtares from fuch cleared ground, into which put the 

 ftock and feed them all with the tares given to them in racks, removing the hur 

 dles and the racks forward daily to the edge of the growing tares &amp;gt; which will manure 

 the hnd uniformly, and depofit all the urine in the foil.t 



In the Gioucefter Report another good method is recommended, rt which is to 

 feed them through rack hurdles,which are made the fame as the common five-railed 

 ones, only leaving the middle rail out, and nailing upright pieces acrofs,at proper 

 diftances, to admit the fheep to put their heads through. A fwath of vetches 

 being mown in the direction you wifh to plough the land, a fufficient number of 

 thefe hurdles, allowing one to five fheep, are fet clofeto it : at noon the fhepherd 

 mows another fwath and throws it to the hurdles, and the fame at night ; next 

 morning, a fwath being firft mown, the hurdles are again fet : thus moving them 

 once in the twenty-four hours, by this trifling additional trouble the vetches are 

 eaten clean off, and the land equally benefited.&quot; 



In Glouceflerfh .re and Worceflerfhire they fow tares as paflurage for horfes, and 

 eat them off early enough to allow of turnips being fown the fame feafon.J In wet 

 feafons, where the tare crops are large, the flems are, however, apt to become rot 

 ten upon the ground ; in this condition luch food often proves prejudicial t 

 horfes ; in fuch cafes it will therefore be imprudent to cut them any longer for the 

 purpofe of foiling. 



* Middlefex Report. t Ibid. 



Witbering s Botanical Arrangement, vol. Ill, p. 622. $ Synop (is of Husbandry,, 



