Notices for a Young Farmer. xv 



a wet one, to save time : nor sow, or stubble in, one chaff- 

 bearing crop, immediately to follow another. Such farming 

 may succeed for a time, under particular circumstances ; but 

 in the end it will produce only a crop of regret. 



If you are deficient in mowing grounds, Oats may be sown 

 on your fallow, and cut for hay, before ripening the seed; 

 and in such case they do not exhaust ; nor does any plant, in 

 this stage of its growth. And see Mr. W. Young's paper on 

 the great advantages of Oat-pasture. 2d vol. Philadelphia 

 Memoirs, 186. Oats and Indian Corn are sometimes sown 

 together, in broad cast ; and cut for soiling, or to be plough- 

 ed in, as green manure. It is difficult to dry them, for win- 

 ter provender. Thistles, or other succulent plants ploughed 

 in, fertilize wonderfully ; when left long enough to ferment, 

 and become putrescent. 



If any covering crop, for summer fallows, which does not 

 exhaust like Oats, could be suggested, a great reformation 

 would ensue. Vetches, or some such plant might be substi- 

 tuted, if the culture were better understood. The Hclegoland 

 Bean, very productive, is now esteemed, in England, as a 

 cleaning crop, to precede Wheat. A spring cover of Pease, 

 of a species ripening in time, is very beneficially used to pre- 

 cede wheat, in the autumn. If the pease fall, and the crop is 

 likely to fail, they may be ploughed in, as an excellent green 

 manure. 



Keep good Fences, and make and repair them, when other 

 business is interrupted. They not only secure your own 

 crops, but ensure the good will of your neighbours ,• by pre- 

 venting teazing contests. Let no weeds, or nurseries for 

 pests, remain near them ; and avoid throwing stones, or other 

 obstructions to the scythe, on the edges of your fields, or 

 mowing grounds. They prevent cleaning their borders ; and 

 afford opportunities of growing, to noxious weeds and other 

 pests; forming, finally, scrubby hedge rows, to disgrace them. 



Be avaricious of your Timber ; and fence your wood 

 lands, to protect the young growths. Waste and negligence 

 in this all essential article, soon produce irretrievable want. 



Live Fences are becoming more and more indispensable : 



