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for spring grain this spring, may better be sown with 

 grass-seed also in spring. If we delay this till fall, 

 and plough in the stubble of the grain, the seed is not 

 sure to vegetate from the want of moisture in the fur- 

 row, and we lose our labor and our next summer's 

 crop. If the soil is dry and inclining to sand, a few 

 bushels of ashes spread on an acre after the grain is 

 up, or before, will often prevent the summer killing of 

 the grass among the grain, and will prove beneficial 

 to the whole crop. 



BUCKWHEAT. 



Every farmer must cultivate some kind of grain, 

 and, by the help of the refuse from his dairy, must 

 fatten some pork. Present prices would justify his 

 feeding his swine largely on grain ; but we cannot 

 expect such prices to continue, and must be cautious of 

 founding our calculations on the price current of one 

 month or one year. But pork must be produced, and 

 we must endeavor to make it as economically as possi- 

 ble. 



We want grain of some kind to mix with our refuse 

 matter earlier in the season than we can harvest our 

 Indian corn. Barley in many places succeeds well, and 

 comes in a d of our early vegetables and of our skimmed 

 milk in August and in September. But barley in 

 many places is an uncertain crop : it requires as rich 

 land as wheat, and is probably as great an exhauster 

 of the soil. It sometimes gives us an abundant har- 

 vest ; but we cannot depend upon it. 



Buckwheat will grow on almost any dry soil ; and, 

 although it produces a less quantity than barley, the 



