438 LUCERNE. 



[AUG. 



not make a provision of them, to be negligent in a 

 very material point of his business. I beg leave to 

 refer the reader to my Northern and Eastern Tours, 

 and to very many registers in the Annals of Agri- 

 culture, for abundant information on this subjedl. 



DRILL CABBAGE-SEED. 

 Cabbage-seed may be drilled on ridges where it is 

 to remain the last week in this month, or the be- 

 ginning of September, as directed in the Calendar 

 for April ; but the reader is to observe, that the be- 

 nefit of the practice has not that superiority which 

 attends the April drillings, by which a transplanta- 

 tion in June is avoided. When the seed is sown in 

 August, that operation takes place in a much safer 

 season. 



POTATOES. 



The potatoe crops in rows must be hand-weeded 

 if necessary ; but it is % now probably too late to 

 horse-hoe. If the intervals are weedy, or bound 

 at all, or the plants not sufficiently earthed up, 

 run the shim through them, but with much care, 

 which will cut up weeds, and loosen the earth : 

 after which the double mould-board will strike them 

 clean, and throw the earth against the rows, bank- 

 ing them up : the running roots and fibres will 

 follow such new thrown-up earth, and increase the 

 crop. 



LUCERNE. 



The lucerne will be ready again for cutting : if, 

 unfortunately, you have any drilled with too wide 

 intervals, attend well to the state pf the land, and 



take 



