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have the least degree of poaching or stickiness, 

 should be avoided. 



SEPARATED Gil ASS - SEEDS. 



I cannot advise a young farmer to pay much at- 

 tention to this object, unk\ss Ire proceeds upon very 

 sure grounds, by forming a contract tor the sale of 

 the seeds at a good price, before he commences his 

 I have myself gone largely into it, 

 and have found it n cheaper method of procuring 

 the seeds, to have them gathered by women and 

 children, by hand, than to rai^c thcnvmysclf, tinder 

 the determination to have them perfectly clean 

 from all mixture. However, as in certain situa- 

 tions, and under rert.nu circumstances, it may be- 

 come an object of attention, something should be 

 said of it here. 



This is the mouth for a spring sowing. There 

 is no object in the whole range of cultivation, 

 which demands land to be so perfectly clean as 

 this, nor is any weed so mischievous, as a different 

 sort of grass from tint sown, nor any more likely to 

 come. The seed i .i-t IK- so-.vn in drills by hand, 

 at one foot asunder, a* id from their first appear- 

 ance above ground, kept absolutely clean. The 

 year following that of sowing, they yield most seed, 

 and presently decline in quantity. I have known 

 several persons who have made the experiment, 

 and who all gave it up. The sorts to be recom- 

 mended are the meadow fescue, the poatrivialis, 

 the crested dog's-tail, the meadow fox-tail, and the 



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