198 APRIL. 



But in the moderji system of avoiding spring- 

 ploughings, with a care proportioned to the heavi- 

 ness of the soil, the main reliance is on frosts for 

 pulverization, and the object is to keep the surface 

 so gained, for the seed to be deposited in it. If 

 the weather was unfavourable for sowing in March, 

 or, being favourable, the breadth was too great to 

 allow the operation to be finished, and if weeds 

 appeared in the lands laid up for barley, it is to be 

 supposed that they were of course destroyed by the 

 scufflers ; and this month the sowing must be 

 finished, whether broad-cast or by drilling. In the 

 latter case, the directions relative to the right 

 breadth of the stitches should have been very atten- 

 tively executed. The young farmer must have 

 it carefully in memory, that as the summer ap- 

 proaches, with hot suns at intervals, any degree 

 of poaching, or daubing, or trampling, becomes 

 more and more fatal, for the sun binds whatever 

 earth was touched in too wet a state. This cau- 

 tion has little to do with the occupiers of sand, 

 much of which wants adhesion to be given it by- 

 art ; but here, again, if such land has been amply 

 clayed, it will sometimes be apt to set, to bind with 

 heavy rains, so that the temper of it should always 

 be examined before the teams at this season am 

 permitted to go on it. 



PEASE, 



Should always be put in before this season, and 

 therefore directions are omitted here; but if, from 



some 



