APRIL.] SPRING WHEAT. 1 1)3 



or scuffler, with the hoe about four inches, or at 

 most five, wide. 



SPRING TARES. 



If the young farmer depends in any degree upon 

 a succession of tares, he ought to have two sowings, 

 one at the beginning and the other towards the 

 end of April. To have these crops to follow one 

 another in consumption, is a very material objecl. 

 Two bushels and an half of seed per acre are a pro- 

 per quantity. 



SPRING WHEAT. 



I cannot in general recommend the culture of 

 this grain, for barley or oats commonly pay better, 

 but as certain circumstances may render it very 

 profitable, it is proper for every farmer to have the 

 objecl in bis mind. Mr. Marshall has ,a useful 

 minute on it. 



" Spring wheat (triticum testivum) is here culti- 

 vated, and with singular success ; owing principally 

 to the time of sowing : the wane of April ! 



<f This proves that it is a species widely distinct 

 in its nature from the winter wheats. In the prac- 

 tice of a superior manager (Mr. Paget, of Ibstock), 

 it was discovered, that by sowing early, as the be- 

 ginning of March, the grain was liable to be 

 shrivelled, and the straw to be blighted, while that 

 sown late, as the middle or latter end of April,, or 

 even the beginning of May, produced clean plumo 

 corn ; effeds direclly opposite to those of winter 

 vvhear." 



O STEEPING 



