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land that either requires late sowing, or that you 

 are disappointed in the design of sowing soon 

 enough to barley. Late sown crops of the latter 

 grain are seldom good enough to pay expences : in 

 such cases, it is useful to substitute buck-wheat ; 

 for I do not think that there are many soils on 

 which a crop of buck-wheat, sown in May, will 

 not exceed in value a crop of barley sown in May : 

 yet, in many tracts of country, it is a common 

 custom to sow barley so late as that season. 

 LUCERNE. 



This plant may yet be sown : being a perennial, 

 and, when well cultivated, yielding an immense 

 profit, too much attention cannot be given to lay 

 the seed in the ground with all possible advantages; 

 that is, the land should be perfectly free from, 

 weeds, very rich and fine ; these requisites a man 

 may not be able to procure in April. In such case let 

 him not sow in April, but wait till May ; and this, 

 whether drilled or sown broad-cast : if the latter, 

 let it by all means be sown with buck-wheat, which 

 is preferable to sowing it alone. 



The advantages of cultivating lucerne are so 

 extremely great, that the young agriculturist should 

 determine at all events, to have sufficient at the least 

 for the summer support of all his teams and other 

 horses ; and if in addition to this quantity he pro- 

 vides ako for thus feeding much other stock in his> 

 farm-yard, he will find it a most profitable practice. 

 The proper soil depends principally on two qualities, 

 that it be quite dry and very rich. If near the 



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