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cause to repent of his conduct, and should a dry 

 frosty time succeed, the destruction of the crop is 

 inevitable. Still more hazardous is it to sow this 

 grain on what is termed a lay-breech, as the worm 

 will in such a season be more likely to destroy the 

 crop, than even after the first breaking up of the lay- 

 ground.*' Bannister. 



TARES. 



If the weather in February did not allow sowing 

 spring tares, or at least all the crop, the work must 

 not be delayed longer than March, otherwise the 

 crop will suffer. The best way is to plough the 

 land flat, or on broad lands, and harrow in the 

 seed : but the fanner must observe well, that the 

 soil' be dry before his ploughs go on it, which is 

 an universal rule, that ought never to be deviated 

 from. 



TARES ON A STALE FURROW. 

 Sowing on a stale furrow is much superior to a 

 fresh ploughing. If the land was ploughed before 

 the Christmas frosts, and the weather in February 

 has been favourable to the vegetation of weeds, 

 some may h;we appeared, but the scarifiers or 

 scuffles will utterly destroy them, and working only 

 iu the dr\ pulverized surface, will prepare for the 

 seed much better than ploughing. Let it be remem- 

 bered, that the necessity of a succession of tare 

 crops (which may be continued through all the 

 spring) depends on the farmer's being not duly 



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