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my present gTowing- crop of wlieat after mustard ploug'lied 

 in, which was sown after tares, presents a healthy and hisu- 

 riant appearance ; and wdiere wheat was sown after mustard, 

 folded off by sheep in October last (as before mentioned), 

 the fulness of plant and healthy appearance far exceed, at 

 present, wheat put in rather earlier upon a clover layer and 

 sheep-folded." 



It is a healthy food for sheep, but, like all other succulent 

 veg-etables, should be given at first sparing-ly, and for the 

 first few days in conjunction with some other food. It is in 

 greatest perfection for eating- just before it comes into 

 blossom ; but as its progress towards flowering- is rapid, it is 

 advisable to beg-in stocking- it several days, or a week, 

 before it is in this state, or ic becomes too old and sticky. 

 It should also be sown in succession about twice a week. 

 Altliough bulky in appearance, there is not above half the 

 wefo- in it that there is in a g-ood crop of cole ; but it may 

 be sown to come into use at a time when flock-masters are 

 at a loss to provide for their sheep; if sown upon a clean 

 fallow in the latter part of April, or beg-inning- of May, a fair 

 crop of white turnips way succeed it ; but when a bulky 

 crop of turnips is of indispensable importance, Mr. Bur- 

 roug-hes cannot, from the experience of himself and others, 

 recommend its cultivation as an intermediate g-reen crop. 



White mustard following- tares, either to be fed off by 

 sheep or ploug'hed in as a green manure may answer very well. 

 It is said to be an antidote to wireworm. It is a very useful 

 crop to g-row upon heavy hand fallow (unfit for turnips), 

 sown about midsummer, after the land has received its due 

 culture, and eaten off by sheep in August or September pre- 

 vioTis to laying- up the land for winter. 



As a g-reen manure, it should be ploughed in before ex- 

 hausting- the land by fallowing-, and all the top ends of the 

 plant should be well turned under the fiu-row, which can 

 only be accomplished by means of a chain, one end being 

 fastened to the " hake" of the plough, and the other to the 

 top of the coulter ; a wooden clog- being- in the centre of the 

 chain to keep it down, and drag-g-ed along- the bottom of the 

 furrow, by the motion of the ploug-h, just before the succeed- 

 ing- furrow falls upon it. 



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