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the flower, they may be cut daily till ! 

 the pods are fully forined ; after this, 

 any which remain uncut should be 

 made into hay or given to sheep ; for 

 if the seeds are allowed to swell, the 

 ground will he much exhausted. An- 

 other piece should be ready to cut by 

 this time, and thus there may be a 

 succession of tares and broad clover 

 from May to November. Tares may 

 be sown as late as August, on a bar- 

 ley or rye stubble, for sheep feed ear- 

 ly in winter, or to be ploughed in to 

 rot in the ground where beans and 1 

 pease are intended to be sown early 

 in spring : this is perhaps the cheap- 1 

 est mode of manuring the land, the 

 only expense being the seed, for the 

 tillage is necessary at all events. In 

 light soils, tares and buckwheat, sown 

 together immediately after barley or | 

 rye harvest, will produce a consider- 

 able crop of vegetable matter, which 

 may be ploughed in in November. In 

 favourable seasons, wheat may be j 

 sown immediately after, without fear- j 

 ing the effect of two white crops fol- 

 lowing each other ; for the tares and \ 

 buckwheat coming between, by their 

 shade, and the two ploughings of the j 

 ground, one when they are sown, and , 

 the second when they are ploughed 

 in, will entirely destroy all weeds, 

 and give to the soil that improvement 

 which will enable it to bear as good a 

 crop of wheat as it would have done 

 had it been sown the year after on a 

 clover lay. Clover, which could not 

 be sown with the barley, from the foul 

 state of the land, may he sown among 

 the wheat in the next spring, when it 

 is hoed for the second time. This is 

 held out as a hint to show how an 

 accidental interruption in a rotation 

 may be remedied without any loss of 

 crop or great deviation. As no rule 

 is without exception, so no rotation 

 can always be strictly adiiered to ; 

 and those crops which admit of being 

 sown at different times of the year 

 are of the greatest use as substitutes 

 for others which could not be con- 

 veniently sown without materially al- 

 tering the succession of crops. In 

 the common cour.se of cultivation of 

 heavy soils, where occasional fallows 



are necessary to clean the land, one 

 half of the laud wliich retpiires fallow- 

 ing may lie sown with tares ; and thus 

 the clean uninoductive summer fal- 

 low will only return at every second 

 rotation. If the tares have been ma- 

 nured, or if they are fed offwiih sheep 

 folded upon the land, the wheat or 

 other crop which is sown after them 

 will be as good as on a clean fallow, 

 or after a good crop of clover. This 

 alone would make tares a valuable 

 crop ; and they may be compared in 

 their effect on heavy lands to turnips 

 on lighter soils. 



" The seeds of the tare are occa- 

 sionally ground into meal and made 

 into bread. It is a very poor food ; 

 and when tliere is more seed than 

 can be profitably disposed of, it may 

 be given to pigs ; but poultry, espe- 

 cially pigeons, are very fond of it. 

 When given to horses, the seeds of 

 tares are found very heating ; and al- 

 though they produce a fine glossy 

 coat, they are not to be recommended 

 for this purpose." — (Rham.) 



TARO. A cultivated Arum of the 

 Columbia River. 



TARRAGON. Artcmesia dracun- 

 culus. A bitter pot-herb, of the same 

 genus as the tansy. 



TARSUS, TARSE. The bones 

 articulated to the tibia, and forming 

 the upper part of the foot. 



TARTAR. The sediment of wine 

 casks. 



TARTAR, CREAM OF. f?iiper- 

 tartrate of potash, obtained by purify- 

 ing tartar. 



TARTAR EMETIC. Tartrate 

 of potash and antimony, a powerful 

 emetic, sedative, and expectorant. • 



TARTARIC ACID. The acid of 

 grapes or of tartar. See Acids. 



TAXICORNS. A family of cole- 

 opterans, in many of whit;h the an- 

 tenna; enlarge towards theiipperends. 



TAXIS. The replacement of parts 

 by the hand. 



TEA. The tea plant has been par- 

 tially introduced into North Carolina 

 with a view to cultivating that impor- 

 tant staple ; we therefin-e present the 

 reader with an ab.straci of the Chi- 

 nese plan from Louduo : 



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