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given while the beasts were at grass, and to go : or* 

 very rapidly while thus fed. 



BUCK-WHEAT. 



This may be sown towards the end of the month. 

 So late a time has offered the opportunity of good 

 tillage to destroy weeds, and of course the land is 

 fine, and in good order. It is a profitable crop, and 

 especially on all (except very heavy soils) land that 

 either requires late sowing, or that you are disap- 

 pointed in the design of sowing soon enough to bar- 

 ley. Late-sown crops of the latter grain seldom pay 

 expences : in such cases, it is useful to substitute 

 buck-wheat ; for I do not think that there are many 

 soils on which a crop of buck-wheat, sown in May, 

 will not exceed in value a crop of barley sown in 

 May: yet in many tracts of country, it is a common 

 custom to sow barley so late as that season. 



LUCERN. 



This plant may yet be sown : being a perennial, 

 and, when well cultivated, yielding an immense 

 profit, too much attention cannot be given to lay 

 the seed in the ground with all possible advantages; 

 that is, the land should be very rich and fine, per- 

 fectly free from weeds: these requisites a man may 

 jiot be able to procure in April. In such case leC 

 him not sow in April, but wait till May j'and this,' 

 whether drilled or sown broad-cast : if the latter, let 

 it by all means be sown with buck-wheat, which is 



preferable to sowing it alone. 

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