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the lower side remaining at that time unhurt by 

 the worm ; but in a few days these insecls spread 

 over the whole close, and although I omitted no 

 opportunity of treading and rolling throughout the 

 spring, the crop at harvest was very slender, as well 

 in straw as grain. From hence we may learn how 

 hazardous it is to sow such lay ground, in the first 

 year after breaking up, with oats, or indeed of cropping 

 it with any other grain than either beans or pease ; 

 for though, in a very kindly year, such corn may not 

 be totally destroyed by the worm, as it turned out 

 in the event, with the greatest part of my oats ; 

 yet there is no doubt but (maugre all his care and 

 pains) the husbandman will then find cause to re- 

 pent of his conduct, and should a dry frosty time 

 succeed, the destruction of the crop is inevitable. 

 Still more hazardous is it to sow this grain on what 

 is termed a lay-breech, as the worm will in such a 

 season be more likely to destroy the crop, than 

 even after the first breaking up of the lay-ground." 

 fiannister. 



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If the weather in February did not allow sowing 

 spring tares, or at least all the crop, the work must 

 not be delayed longer than March, otherwise the 

 crop will suffer. The best way is, to plough the 

 land flat, or on broad lands, and harrow in the 

 seed : but the farmer must observe well, that the 

 soil be dry before his ploughs go on it, which is 

 an universal rule, that ought never to be deviated 

 from. 



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