to Valenciennes, that there are pieces of two, 

 three, and four acres of seed-bed often met with. 

 The crop is reckoned very uncertain : some- 

 times it pays nothing; but, in a good year, up 

 to 300 liv. the arpent (lOO perches of 24 feet), 

 or Si. 15s. the English acre. They make the 

 crop in July; and, by manuring the land, get 

 good wheat. 



SOILING. 



Soiling on lucern, tares, clover, or chicory, 

 should go on through the whole of this month. 

 In some soils, and situations, and seasons, it may 

 not be possible to do any thing in it in May, but 

 now these plants will every where admit it. The 

 mowings should be daily, and attention paid that 

 the food be not left loaded in carts, or given in the 

 racks or cribs in such quantities as to ferment, 

 which presently renders it unpalatable, and conse- 

 quently refused by horses and cattle, much waste 

 ensuing. If the number to be fed be not so great 

 as to demand a one-horse cart-load for every bait, 

 it will be proper to have an ass car for this purpose, 

 as it is very material that all which is brought home 

 should be immediately distributed to the stock. A 

 good farmer will have been attentive to secure as 

 ample a provision of litter as possible ; if he has 

 not reserved his wheat-stacks to be thrashed at this 

 season, which usually gives the best price, at the 

 same time that it provides for littering at a season 

 the best calculated for making dung. That sum- 



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