414 MOW GRASS. [JULY. 



The cultivation of burnet is neither hazardous 

 nor expensive : if the land be prepared, as is gene- 

 rally done for a crop of turnips, there is no danger 

 of any miscarriage, and any person may be sup- 

 plied with the best seed at (id. per pound. 



I make no doubt but that burnet might be 

 sown late in the spring, with oats or barley. A 

 gentleman in my neighbourhood did so last sum- 

 mer, and it succeeded very well. I should think a 

 buck-wheat season, which is sown the last of all 

 corn, would suit it very well ; but of this I have 

 no experience, and could wish to have the experi- 

 ment tried. A pea field drilled, in rows, and kept 

 clean, would make an excellent season for burnet, 

 as the pea crop would come off soon enough to 

 prepare the land with two plough ings by the middle 

 of August, after which time 1 should not chuse to 

 sow it. 



It very frequently happens, that every farmer 

 who sows many acres with turnips, has several 

 worth little or nothing : the fly, the black catter- 

 pillar, the dry weather, or some unknown cause, 

 often defeating the industry and expence of the 

 most skilful fanner. When this happens, as it 

 too often dues, I would by all means advise him 

 to sow it with burnet, and in March and April 

 following he will have a iiiu 1 pasture (or his sheep 

 and lambs. Loininunit' o Dr. Te.mplctnctn. 



All meadows and ; jj not mown in June, 



should be cut this month. Hay-making being in 



many 





