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following the common plough, bottoms the clung, 

 and spreads it for the corn. 



TURNIPS AFTER TARES. 



The winter tares that were sown the last week 

 in August, or the beginning of September,, will, if 

 the season proved favourable, be mown for soiling 

 early enough to put in turnips within this month. If 

 manure was necessary, it should have been spread 

 for the tares, and by that means tiv/ field will bo in 

 fine order for this crop. Much depends on ma- 

 nagement : the tares should be mown stitch by 

 stitch longitudinally, an.il on no account wiia 

 in the common random v.;r . in a round or square 

 portion irregularly; for, by that means, the ploughs 

 are kept out so much longer, and if a drought 

 succeeds, the land may not be in a state to plough 

 till too late ; but taken soon after the scythe, no 

 land stirs better than that where tares have been 

 mown. If the crop was large, and beaten at all 

 to the ground, there will be an uncut stubb'e, 

 which is scarcely ever turned clean in by any com- 

 mon ploughs ; it should be attempted only with 

 the skim-coulter, which sweeps it clean to the 

 bottom of the furrow so buried, that the harrows 

 drag out none. The turnip-seed should be sowed 

 immediately, and, thus managed, there will be 

 little fear of a crop. 



They have on the South Downs an admirable 

 practice in their course of crops, which cannot be 

 too much commended ; that of substituting a 



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