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worth something. Now there are hundreds of acres in 

 the town of Frankhn that would annually yield from 

 ten to twenty bushels of buckwheat with only one 

 ploughing, and without any manure excepting the 

 green crop, which may be turned in from the 15th to 

 the 30th of June, and we may always have this green 

 crop if we will sow one bushel of rye on the acre, with 

 the buckwheat. The wheat will be mowed off by 

 the first of September, and then the rye will appear 

 and give some fall feed. The wheat will not be in 

 the way of fall feeding, and we need not fence off, as in 

 case of planting beans, corn, or potatoes. — Ed. 



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June is the proper month for preparing composts for 

 August, or fall sowing ; and, if we have not too many 

 acres in tillage, we have ample time for ploughing by 

 the roadside, and securing the rank growth of grass 

 and weeds that we often find there. If we take 

 care of this wash in season, we sometimes prevent its 

 being put into the middle of the road by the highway 

 surveyors, some of whom are fond of taking such 

 materials in preference to gravel to mend the road. 

 They find it easier to fill a cart with this stuff than 

 with gravel, the only material that should be put on 

 a country road. They make a great show by putting 

 such manure in the road, and make some people be- 

 lieve they have been doing some public service. In 

 autumn, when the rains come, they wonder to see 

 such deep ruts cut in the road ; and they and a majority 

 of travellers begin to think, if this muck had been put 

 on to the farms, the roads would have been better. 

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