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or feeding green ; but, if they are for a crop of 

 seed, two bushels will be sufficient. Tares for hay 

 make a most excellent fillovv year. They are 

 mown before they draw or exhaust the land at all, 

 and their extreme luxuriancy and thick shade so 

 mellow and loosen the soil, and kill all "weeds, that, 

 if the crop is good, and the seed sown not later than 

 February, there will be a very good chance for a 

 crop of turnips after them, on one earth ; but, 

 without such luck, this husbandry is far preferable 

 to sowing two crops of corn running. If a farmer 

 thinks of sowing barley after wheat, barley, or oats, 

 or oats after either, let htm throw a crop of tares 

 for hay between two of corn, and he will be sure to 

 reap the benefit of it. They will give him, on 

 middling land, from a ton and a half to two 

 tons and a half of hay per acre, which, with their 

 cleaning and ameliorating nature, will be found to 

 far exceed any second crop of corn on the same 

 land. 



WATERED MEADOWS. 



Much attention is now required in the floater. 

 Mr. Wright remarks, that if the water be suffered 

 to flow over the meadow for the space of many 

 days without intermission, a white scum is gene- 

 rated, which is found very destructive to the grass j 

 and if the water be then taken off, and the land 

 exposed in its wet state to a severe frosty night, 

 a great part of the tender grass will be cut off. In 

 Gloucestershire, two methods of avoiding these 



injuries 



