SEPT.] WINTER TARES. 4(K) 



lucerne, chicory, tares, &c. with a reserve, if wai 

 of common grass of the right age, it should be 

 steadily adhered to throughout the month. There is 

 plenty of food, it is true, in the fields, hut this should 

 be eaten by sheep, which should be cheaply main- 

 tained through the months of September and Oclober, 



SOW WINTER TARES, 



This is the principal month in the year for sowing 

 winter tares. The earlier they are got into the ground 

 the better ; for the difference of forwardness in the 

 spring, from only a week difference in the time of 

 sowing, is sometimes great. Three bushels an acre 

 are the common quantity of seed, broad -cast ; but 

 some sow only two or two and a half thus early. If they 

 are drilled at six inches, two are enough. Our young 

 farmer will proportion the breadth of ground he ap 

 plies to this crop, to the circumstance of the quan- 

 tity of lucerne or chicory he has for the purpose of 

 soiling : if he has little or none of those plants, he 

 must appropriate a good breadth to tares, for in such 

 case he will find them very advantageous, 



SOW WINTER TARES ON POOR PASTURES AND 

 MEADOWS. 



This very extraordinary husbandry was the inven- 

 tion, if I may be allowed the expression, of a very 

 ingenious and excellent farmer, Mr. Salter, of Nor-* 

 folk : wherever he improves poor meadows or pastures 

 by spreading earth, clay, chalk, marie, gravel, &c. he 

 harrows in winter tares on such manuring, and, if 

 wanted, grass-seeds or white clover. And it is a 

 curious fact, which I have witnessed on his farm at 

 Winborough, that the grass-seeds, succeed better 



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