4U SKETCHES OF RURAL AFFAIRS. 



bare. This is not merely unpleasing to look at, but it 

 is a positive waste of corn, and injury to the crop. 



EFFECT OT BAD PLOUGHING. 



There are two ways in which such irregularity may 

 happen to the crops. In the first place the land may 

 have been badly ploughed, causing the seed to be cast 



EFFECT OF BAD SOWING.* 



at different depths, some near the surface, and others too 

 deep to come up quickly, if at all. In the next place 



* These, and several of the minor illustrations, were copied for our 

 first edition (published in parts in the years 1845-7), from Mr. 

 Stephens's large and important "Book of the Farm," (3 vols. 

 8vo., 1842,) to which we were also indebted for much valuable 

 information. 



