160 GREEN CROPS. 



GREEN CROPS. 



To the Editor of the Cultivato?' : 



SiR^ — I have a field that hes distant from my barn, 

 and it has never had a share of my manure, though it 

 has often contributed to supply my granary. As you 

 have practised ploughing in green crops to enrich youf 

 land, I should like to know, through the medium of 

 your useful paper, your opinion as to the best and 

 cheapest mode of enriching it without manure. 



Respectfully yours, S. D. 

 Wayland, April 29, 1839. 



If our correspondent wishes to devote his field for 

 one whole season to green crops in order to raise his 

 land, and the same is not tough swarded — not half 

 seeded, as we see many of our fields that have been 

 run too hard with grain without manure — the quick- 

 est way to bring up such land without manure, and 

 without much cost, is to plough it about the twelfth of 

 May, turning in nicely all the grass and stubble : sow 

 on one bushel of buckwheat to an acre, and cover it 

 with a harrow. In six weeks the wheat will be in full 

 bloom : roll it down flat, plough it in, and sow on 

 another bushel of buckwheat as before. In the latter 

 part of August roll this down as before, cover it com- 

 pletely with the plough, harrow it, then sow your grass- 

 seeds while the furrow is fresh, and cover that with a 

 brush-harrow. 



Sow no clover till snow comes : then, if you intend 

 the land for pasture, sow southern clover and Dutch 

 honeysuckle ; if for mowing, sow northern clover. 

 This will not come to head much until after haying is 

 over ; but it will furnish fall feed, and will assist much 

 in keeping out from your new-sown land weeds and 

 noxious plants, that will intrude where nothing but 

 herds-grass and red-top grass are sown. Clover serves 



