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acre of sainfoin where there ought to be an hun- 

 dred. 



Sainfoin, on extremely favourable soils, will get 

 the better of weeds, but it is always right to sow 

 it with barley after turnips ; four bushels an acre 

 broad-cast, but three are enough drilled. If with 

 drilled barley, the best way is to drill the corn first, 

 and then the sainfoin across the former drills. 



PEASE. 



This month is the proper season for sowing all 

 sorts of pease, that were not sown in February ; 

 nor is it proper to delay any of them later, if the 

 weather now suits. White pease should be sown 

 last, and on light land ; for they do not succeed 

 well on heavy or wet clays. There are scarcely any 

 soils that do not suit some pea or other. Stiff 

 clays do very well for the hardier hog-pease, 

 and all lighter loams, gravels, chalks, and sands, 

 answer well for the tenderer kinds. In common 

 management they are sometimes ploughed, and at 

 ether times harrowed in ; which variation often 

 makes a difference in the crop ; for, if the land is 

 apt to bind with rain, and the pease are ploughed 

 in, they sometimes do not rise at all, not having 

 strength to pierce the plastered surface. But this 

 evil attends the very binding soils only with late 

 sowing. On the contrary, when the seed is only 

 harrowed in, if the field is not very well watched, 

 the pigeons and birds will carry away much of it, 

 and for that sx^me allowance should be made. If 



x: land 



