23 EYE. 



ON THE CULTIVATION OF RYE. 



You should have your seed clean and of the best 

 quality, and seed your rye on the top of your clover 

 in the months of October and November. You 

 should plough your clover and the rye all in together, 

 about four inches ; and then seed your ground behind 

 the plough in buckwheat. The next process is to 

 take your fallow harrow and pulverize your ground 

 as finely as possible, and afterward clean out your 

 furrows. The same land should be seeded in timo- 

 thy, and the clover will seed itself. 



Obtain a roller if you have none, and roll the 

 ground crossways as well as you can. In six or eight 

 days your buckwheat will come up, and cover your 

 ground from the sun in the Fall. The buckwheat 

 will grow from 15 to 18 inches by the time the frost 

 takes it. There will be straw enough on the ground 

 to shelter the rye, clover and timothy, from the Win- 

 ter, and there will be no fear but you will be able to 

 make a double crop. 



By this mode of cultivating your land, it must be- 

 come rich ; for the frosts cannot draw the Nitre from 

 *he earth, and by keeping the earth warm in Winter, 

 and cool in Summer, your land will improve faster 

 than by the aid of manure raised on the same ground. 

 It is my opinion that nothing raised from the earth 

 impoverishes it. Look, as was observed before, at 



