42 OFMANURES. Parti. 



Buck-wheat occupies the land about an hundred days ; fo that 

 this grain fown about the end of June, is gathered about the end of 

 September. 



When the flalks and roots of this plant are dead and dried, they 

 plow them up, and immediately fow wheat, and cover it with the 

 harrow. 



About the month of July or Auguft, after the wheat crop, they 

 plow as foon as poflible : they plow for the lail: time in February or 

 March, in order to fow oats, or in April for barley ; but in this cafe 

 they ftir the land two or three times to make it fine. 



They harrow in all thefe different grains, and when they are come 

 up, they pafs a roller over the oats, and if there remain any clods in 

 the barley, they break them with a hoe. 



The next February or March, they plow the land again, in order 

 to fow it with grey peas or vetches. 



After thefe pulfe have been reaped, they give one or two plowings 

 to prepare the land for wheat the enfuing autumn. 



The year after, they fow oats, mixt fometimes with a little clover, 

 and then lay it down to paflure for three or four years. 



In feme new broke up lands they fow no buck-wheat, but let it 

 lie fallow from the month of March, when it was firft broken up, 

 till 0(S:ober, when they fow it with wheat ; making ufe of the in- 

 termediate time to give it feveral plowings : thefe lands being by this 

 means much finer, they ufe little more than three-fourths of the 

 quantity of lime above prefcribed, and generally have a better crop 

 than when they begin with buck-wheat. 



Some farmers think a perch too great a difirance for the conveni- 

 ence of fpreading the lime ; therefore they make the heaps lefs, and 

 increafe the number in proportion. Being perfuaded that lime is 

 moft efficacious when it lies fliallow in the ground, they firft plow 

 it in, and then give it a fecond plowing before they fow, which 

 brings it again near the furface. 



Others lay the lime in a ridge from one end of the field to the 

 other; which makes it eafier for them to fpread. 



Mr. Duhamel relates the following fad, as a farther inflance of 

 the ufe of lime-ftonc. " The flone which is ufed for building 

 *• at Deneinvilliers, fays he, is very hard, and bears polilhing like 

 *' marble. It is intermixed here and there with fliells, fome of 

 " which are filled with a kind of oker, and others contain a cry- 

 " ftaline fubftance. Thefe flones are fit to make lime of Some 

 2 " worknien 



