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JUNE. 



double crop of tares instead of a fallow for wheat. 

 Let the intelligent reader give his attention to this 

 practice, for it is worth a journey of 500 miles. 

 They sow forward winter tares, which are fed. off 

 late in the spring with ewes and lambs : they then 

 plough, and sow summer tares and rape, two 

 bushels and a half of tares, and half a gallon of 

 rape ; and this they feed off with their lambs in 

 time to plough once for wheat. A variation is for 

 mowing : that of sowing tares only in succession, 

 even so late as the end of June for soiling. Octo- 

 ber 6th, I saw a fine crop finishing between Lewes 

 and Brighton, on land that had yielded a full crop 

 of winter-sown ones. The more this husbandry is 

 analyzed, the more excellent it will appear. The 

 land in the fallow year is made to support the ut- 

 most possible quantity of sheep which its destina- 

 tion admits : the two ploughings are given at the 

 best seasons ; in autumn, for the frosts to mellow 

 the land, and prepare it for a successive growth of 

 weeds, and late in spring to turn them down. Be- 

 tween the times of giving those stirrings, the land 

 is covered by crops. The quantity of live stock 

 supported, yields amply in manure. The treading 

 the soil receives previous to sowing wheat, gives 

 an adhesion grateful to that plant : in a word, 

 many view r s are answered, and a new variation from 

 the wretched business of summer-fallowing disco- 

 vered, which, by a judicious application, would be 

 attended in great tracts of this kingdom with most 

 happy consequences to the farmer's profit. 



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