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heart and tilth, " to receive at 

 least one ploughing and harrowing 

 about the latter end of April, or 

 beginning of IVlay ; after which light 

 furrows should be run three teet 

 asunder, at the depth of three or 

 four inches. In these furrows corn 

 should be sown broadcast, about 

 the thickness, and in the same man- 

 ner that peas are sown, in the field 

 culture of them. The corn may 

 then be covered by the plough. 

 Although in my experience, a har- 

 row drawn lengthways and cross- 

 ways, followed by a roller, is suffi- 

 cient and to be preferred for this 

 operation." Corn should be sown 

 jn the middle of May^ the begin- 

 ning and middle of June, and even 

 as late as August, on which soiling 

 may be continued during Septeni- 

 ber. In this month likewise grass 

 of the second crop may be used, 

 from those acres from which soil- 

 ing was effected in June. The 

 grass of the second crop will gene- 

 rally enable the farmer to soil to 

 the 15th of October, if his grass 

 land is in proper tilth and heart. 



" Reduced to a single statement, 

 my experience and system is, for 

 the support of my soiled stock, 

 during the months of July, August 

 and September, to sow in the 

 months of April, May, June and 

 July, equal to three quarters of an 

 acre of land for each head of cat- 

 tle soiled, in such succession as 

 will give also a regular succession 

 of succulent food in the three first 

 mentioned months." 



From the l5th of October to the 



middle or latter end of November, 



Mr. Quincy depended upon the 



tops of carrots and turnips des- 



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tined either for the market or win- 

 ter food for his stock. " My prac- 

 tice has been to raise from eight to 

 twelve acres of vegetables The 

 tops of which, with a smgle fodder- 

 ing of salt hay, per day, have been, 

 according to my experience, suffi- 

 cient to support equal to twenty 

 head of cattle from the 15th of Oc- 

 tober to the cniddle or latter end of 

 November." 



SOOT, condensed smoke, whicli 

 adheres to the funnels of chimneys. 

 It is replete with the oil and vola- 

 tile salts which were contained in 

 the fuel, and is therefore an excel- 

 lent manure, much superior to 

 ashes of any kind. 



Both wood soot and coal soot 

 should be caretuily saved, and kept 

 from the weather, to be used as 

 top-dressings. 



Mr. Worlidge seems to think 

 wood soot the best ; but Mr. Mor- 

 timer give the preference to that 

 which comes from pit coal, of which 

 forty bushels are allowed to be a 

 sufficient dressing for an acre. But 

 of this kind our farmers can obtain 

 but little; nor indeed plenty of 

 either, unless in the neighbourhood 

 of populous towns, where much of 

 it may be collected for use by those 

 whose business it is to clean chim- 

 neys. 



Both kinds are to be used only 

 as top-dressings. The coal soot is 

 particularly good for low meadows, 

 or grass lands, which are sour and 

 mossy. 



Soot is a good top-dressing for 

 winter grain. But it should be ap- 

 plied early in the spring. Not in 

 autumn, lest it should cause it to 

 grow too fast, by means of which 



