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the skim-coulter, which sweeps it clean to the 

 botlom of the furrow so buried, that the harrows 

 drag out none. The turnip-seed should be sowed 

 immediately, and thus managed, there will be little 

 fear of a crop. 



They have on the South Downs an admirable 

 practice in their course of crops, which cannot be 

 too much commended ; that of substitute 

 double crop of tares instead of a fallow for wheat. 

 Let the intelligent reader give his attention to this 

 practice, for it is worth a journey of 50O miles. 

 They sow forward winter tares, which are fed off 

 late in the spring with ewes and lambs : they then 

 plough, and sow summer tares and rape, two 

 bushels and a half of tares, and half a gallon of 

 rape ; and this they feed off with their lambs in 

 time to plough once for wheat. A variation is for 

 mowing ; that of sowing tares only in succession, 

 even so late as the end of June for soiling. Octo- 

 ber 6th, I saw a fine crop finishing between Lewes 

 and Brighton, on land that had yielded a full crop 

 of winter-sown ones. The more this husbandry is 

 analyzed, the more excellent it will appear. The 

 land in the fallow year is made to support the ut- 

 most possible quantity of sheep which its destina- 

 tion admits : the two ploughings are given at the 

 best seasons ; in autumn, for the frosts to mellow 

 the land, and prepare it for a successive growth of 

 weeds, and late in spring to turn them clown. Be- 

 tween the times of giving those stirrings, the land 

 is covered by crops. The quantity of live stock 



supported, 



