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run out, and mnke room for various kinds ofgrass ' second season, and ihe ensuing spring v,'e piougli 

 and noxious weeds. • ! up for ffillow. Yours, &c., 



od. Jls io Vie lime of catling. — On this point T 

 eniirely roincide. wiihyour valuable rorrespondent. 

 Mr. Ilarmon. tliat ihe seed should be perfectly 

 ri|)e. Ist, because it will yield more seed per 

 acre wlien sold by weight ; and 21, because it 

 will thrash at least one third easier, 



4ih. Is Ihe first or second crop best? — Experi- 

 ence teaches us (hat the second crop will yield 

 generally about one third more ; the reason we 



Vales Co., Sept. 1810. 



W. N. H. 



OF THE COURSES OF CROPS. 



From Arthur Young's Travels. 

 Piedmont. — Cheniale. — A ycaroffalowcom- 

 Mippose'to be, that the first crop, ripcninir in the j mon in five or six years, during which year the 

 heat of summer, ripens too speedily, and conse- | land is never watered, only exposed to the sun. 

 f]!iently ilie seed is very much shrunk, and o(| Wheat is sown on fallow; on clover land ; al- 

 course a very bad sample. ways after hemp, because the land is in high or- 



5th. Amount of seed obtained from an acrc.-M^''5 ''^« ^'"""je aHer maize, if weji manured ; in 

 We generally e.xpect, on siiiable soil, from , wo p^^'c'i <^3f f^'so after millet sown in June, other- 

 to four bushels ; but this depends much on ^h^ '^^^^e mf,,Un or rye. 1 he fallovy for wheat, corn- 

 season : a wet season being by far the most pro- | ""^"l): '"''o^^ff buckwheat, called here /mnenfm, 

 duclive. We seldom cut more than a bushel per 1 ormiHet. Clover is sown among rye in March, 

 acre on stiff clay soils. 



6th. Whether the thrashing cannot he done by a 

 thrashing machine instead cf n flaill I have 

 seen (his tried several times. 1st, with a spiked 



never among wheat. Millet de cottura is sown 

 in June ; millet de reetuba the end of July, after 

 wheat; and then dung well lor hemp. 



Turin. — In some arable land I viewed, a few 

 miles from this capital, the following most extra- 



machine We fiund that it took as Ion? to sepa- | ordinary course was pursued, and u"as mentioned 



to me as being not uncommon ; 1 maize ; 2, wheat; 

 3, wheat; 4, wheat ; 5, maize; G, wheat; 7, wheat; 

 8, wheat. 



The year of maize being considered as such a 

 preparation, as to allow of 'hree successive crops 

 of wheat. The practice however is barbarous. 

 Upon the farm of Si^. Briolo, the following is the 

 course ; — 1, maize ; 2, wheat ; 3, rye ; and when 

 the land wants repose, clover is sown upon a 

 small part. 



VercelU. — Upon good wheal land ; — 1, maize ; 

 2, wheat; 3, wheat; 4, rye. And in the rice 

 grounds; — 1, fallow; 2, rice; 3, rice; 4, rice. 

 They have here an excellent practice, and it ex- 

 lends, more or less, over all Piedmont, which is to 

 mow clover by the lOih of Maj-, and to plo-jgh the 

 and and plant maize, which succeeds greatly afier 



rate the hends from the straw — the latter being 

 mostly broken up — as it did to thrash it with a I 

 flail ; and also, that after doine the best we could ' 

 wiih it, there remained nearly double the bulk of 

 chaff, and broken siravv mixed, to be thras'ied 1 

 with tlie clover machine, allowing for the services j 

 of the machine two extra men and four horses. 

 It was next tried with what we call a better ma- 

 chine. We found this the best in one point; the 

 straw was somewhat broken up ; but, as an ofiset 

 ngaint this, we found it impossible to make it 

 thrash clean. — We therefore concluded that the 

 flail was by far the best. 



7th. Whni is ihe cost of a clover machine with 

 and without the horse power 1 — To this I must 

 observe that I have seen the kind mentioned by 

 your friend Harmon, and those made by Mr. Bur- 

 rail of Geneva; but I consider the kind briefly j clover. 



mentioned by me in your last paper, not only the | Milanese— J7/7a?i.— The arable lands never 

 most convenient for a stationary machinp, but j repose ; but a quick succession is reaped. Two 

 likewise the cheapest: a friend of min- having i crops of bread corn are gained in one year, by 

 made several of them (without horse power) for 1 sowinc maize in July, after wheat. 

 §^40, materials inclusive. Milan to Pavia.— The course common in the 



8th. Can the clover machine be easily adapted to \ rice grounds, is, — 1, rice ; 2, rice ; 3, rice ; 4, fiil- 

 ihe different horse powers used in thrashing wheat; \o\v, and dung; 5. wheat, clover sown, either 

 and what amount of power is required? — This ] with it in autumn, or upon it in spring ; the former 

 query may be speedily answered by the fact that best ; 6 clover; 7, clover; 8, clover ; 9, flax, and 

 I never knew a farmer who had a separate horse i then millet ihe same year : and then rice again, 

 power for his clover machine. The generality of- as above. 



clover machines can be worked v/ith three horses, I Also, — 1, wheat ; 2, clover; 3, clover ; 4, clo- 

 bui four are best. ; ver ; 5, clover ; 6, flax and then maize ; 7, wheat. 



There is another point which j-ou forgot, and I and clover again. Sometimes afier flax, coleseed 

 Iiad nearly forgotten to mention. It is iheqaan-jfor oil. Another course, — 1, 2, 3, clover; 4, 

 lily of seed necessary to sow an acre. We usual- ] maize ; 5, rice ; 6, rice ; 7, rice ; 8, fallow ; 9, corn, 

 ly sow a bushel on six acres, but some fiirmers and clover, 

 consider a bushel to ten acres to be sufficient. I In the Pavese. — 1, rye, and then fallowed for, 



Remarks. — The plan usually pursued in this } 2, wheat, sown with clover in February, mown 

 country for raising clover is this: We seed our 'with Ihe stubble, and then fed ; 3, clover, 4, clo- 

 ■wheat at the time above mentioned. After har- 1 ver ; 5, clover; 6, flax, and then millet; or, in- 

 vest we are careful that nothing feeds on this j stead of both, maize; 7, wheat : 8, wheat, and 

 clover lor the remainder of the season, for it injures I left, then, sometimes, to pasturarre under clover, 

 the young clover very much. The next season! Mozzata. — A course common here, — 1 clover; 

 we cut a crop of hay, say about the middle of! 2, winter fl.ix ; 3, lupines ; 4, maize, for forage; 5, 

 July; then sow on about two bushels of plaster, coleseed ; 6, cabbages ; 7, panic ; 8, hemp ; 9. 

 and let it grow for seed. We repeat lliis the , beans. This course will be fijund to occupy about 



