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hedges, supplied him- with hurdle-stuff enough to 

 make many dozens every year, so that he supplied 

 himself entirely with that article, as well as with a 

 profusion of all sorts of baskets, especially one kind 

 that he used for moving cabbage-plants, for which 

 purpose they were much better than tumbling the 

 plants loose in a cart. The common osier he cut 

 for this purpose at three years, and that with yel- 

 low bark at four. 



TARES. 



This is a proper season for sowing spring tares, 

 called in some places, vetches, fetches, thetches, &c. 

 The land I suppose stirred in autumn. The first 

 season in this month that is dry enough, should be 

 chosen for harrowing in three bushels an acre of 

 seed. I suppose them designed for making hay, 

 or feeding green ; but, if they are for a crop of 

 seed, two bushels will be sufficient. Tares for hay 

 make a most excellent fallow year. They are 

 mown before they draw or exhaust the land at all, 

 and their extreme luxuriancy and thick shade so 

 mellow and loosen the soil, and kill all weeds, that, 

 if the crop is good, and the seed so\vn not later tha 

 February, there will ho a very good chance for a 

 crop of turnips after them, on one earth ; but, 

 without such luck, this husbandry is far preferable 

 iv.inpr two crops of corn running. If a farmer 

 thiii \\iug b:; T \\lk-at, barley, or oats 



or bi , let him throw a crop of tar 



for hay between two of corn, and he will be sure to 

 the benefit of it. They will give him, oa 



middling 



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