SEPTEMBER, 4t}3 



thus early. If they are drilled at six inches, two 

 are enough. Our young farmer will proportion the 

 breadth of ground he applies to this crop, to the 

 circumstance of the quantity of lucern or chicory 

 he has for the purpose of soiling : if be has little 

 or none of those plants, he must appropriate a good 

 breadth to tares, for in such case he will find them 

 very advantageous. 



SEED TARES, 



" When tatps are sown with a view either to cut 

 green for the horses, to feed down with sheep, or 

 to mow for fodder, the allowance is three bushels 

 to the acre ; though there are many people who 

 content themselves with sowing two bushels, or 

 two bushels and a half ; and when it is designed 

 that the tares shall remain for ripening, two bushels, 

 or two bushels and a half, is a quantity sufficient to 

 crop an acre ; but in cither of the instances first 

 mentioned, three bushels will not be found too 

 liberal an allowance ; for it may be laid down as a 

 general rule, that where the haulm or stalk is the 

 chief ohject in view, the seeds ought to be thickly 

 sown, that the plants may be encouraged to shoot 

 away the more freely in iheir growth. Thus, in 

 the several tribes of grasses, where the chief end 

 is to obtain a crop of fodder, a much larger pro- 

 portion of seed should he allowed than if it were 

 intended to remain on the ground till .harvest ; 

 for, by being sown thick, the progress in growth is 

 much accelerated : and this observation deserves to 



be 



