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other fallow crop, previous to the barley, the same tool 

 will effectually cultivate the soil for both crops : and 

 if the grounds are sufficiently rich, this intermediate 

 crop will be an excellent practice, for it will more ef- 

 fectually destroy the weeds, brambles, sprouts, dock, 

 or other hardy root plants, which have been crippled, 

 but not eradicated, by the cultivation of the corn. If 

 wheels were added to the hoe harrow, the difficulties 

 mentioned before will be avoided. These may be rea- 

 dily made of thick, hard plank, dubbed to form naves 

 and rims. Clover seed should be immediately sown 

 over the barley, and brushed in, but a light harrow 

 will not drag the soil, &c. in heaps, on the surface, or 

 if spire grasses are preferred, they may be sown in the 

 room of clover, and covered in the same way. The 

 clover or spire grasses should be mown but one sum- 

 mer, and the lay with a second or good third crop, 

 turned under, not more than six inches deep, in the 

 fall, for wheat. This leaves the manure and numerous 

 seeds of weeds, which had been turned under for the 

 corn, still at the bottom. On the wheat, sow orchard, 

 oat, or timothy grass seeds, the two former immediate- 

 ly well harrowed in, with a light harrow, or the com- 

 mon harrow brushed, for although this may bury some 

 seeds too deep, the deep rooting of the plants saves 

 them from being hove out by frost, which generally 

 destroys those which root on, or very near the surface, 

 and if those light, chaffey seeds, are sown on the settled 

 ground in the spring, they rot on the surface, and are 

 blown away with the winds. Timothy or clover pros- 

 pers well, when sown on wheat, very early in the spring, 

 but are frequently very inj^urious to the grain crops, if 



