218 CORRESPONDENCE. 



We choose for this purpose the last of August and the 

 first of September. We plough one acre, or one day's 

 work. We then take a heavy roller and flatten down 

 the furrows well, so that the harrow shall not disturb 

 them. W^e next put on a dozen loads of compost 

 manure — twenty will do no harm — spread it and 

 harrow it in, going at first lengthwise of the furrow, 

 then a little diagonally, but never crosswise. Next we 

 sow one peck of herds-grass, and one bushel of red-top : 

 we save our clover to be thrown on in Avinter. We 

 then take a brush-harrow and cover the seed. If any 

 sods remain on the surface, on account of the imper- 

 fection of the plough, we rake these into the dead fur- 

 rows in a few minutes with the common hand-rake. 



We do not wish to commence earlier than this, lest 

 the dry weather should injure t' e seed ; we do not 

 choose to sow later than the middle of September, lest 

 we should make our crop small at the first inowing. 

 We have never been troubled with the winter-killing 

 of our grass sown in this way ; and we cut from one 

 ton to a ton and a half of good hay on an acre the first 

 season after sowing, and we get more the second year. 

 If we should use half the manure that we take for 

 corn or potatoes, we could cut from two to three tons 

 to the acre the first season. 



By this procedure we lay the sod under, and our 

 land is light : it will remain light much longer than 

 when pulverized by planting : then, too, wj have not 

 exhausted our soil, and taken off", in the shape of corn 

 or potatoes, all the virtue of the manure, but we have 

 placed under th-e sod about a dozen tons of rowen and 

 of roots, to be rotting and turning to English grass as 

 we want it. — Ed. 



To the Editor of the Cultivator : 



Sir, — I have seen but a few numbers of your 

 paper, but I have often heard that you were bred a 

 farmer from your youth up, and that the farmers of 



