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saving of seed : for a bushel, or a bushel and a half 

 less seed, will do in this way than in broad-cast 

 sowing. 



PEASE ON LAYERS. 



There is scarcely an article of cultivation to be 

 treated of in a Calendar at present, in which a 

 double attention is not necessary, and which may 

 give an appearance of repetitions that are unne- 

 cessary. But when it is considered that there are 

 clearly two descriptions of farmers who ought to 

 find the use of such a work, being both inexpe- 

 rienced, such an idea will be found erroneous. 

 There are men who design only to pursue the prac- 

 tice of their own district, in which great improve- 

 ments may not be common ; and there are others 

 more enlightened, who wish in every month to be 

 reminded of what are the works going on at that 

 time in all other districts, that they may try them 

 or not, at their pleasure. The preceding articles, 

 under the head of pease, are for the former de- 

 scription ; but the latter were probably at work for 

 this crop in February, for by means of that new and 

 grea* improvement of autumnal ploughing, for so 

 many crops to be put into the ground in the spring, 

 without any fresh ploughing, the land may have been 

 laid in stitches, exactly suitable to the drill-machine, 

 and to the scarifier, scuffler, and harrow, so that 

 the surface may now be worked to the necessary 

 degree, without a horse ever setting his foot any 

 where but in a furrow, and consequently not tread- 



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