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The bell Seafon for fbwing of 

 this Seed is in the Beginning or 

 Middle o^ March, (according as the 

 Sealbn is early or latej obfcrving 

 always to do it in dry Weather, 

 otherwife the Seed will be apt to 

 burft with Moifture, and fb never 

 come up. Theie Seeds being large, 

 there will require a great Quantity 

 to fbw an Acre : The common Al- 

 lowance is four Bufhels to an Acre, 

 but I would not ad vile above three 

 at moft: And if this Seed were 

 fown in Rows, (in the Manner di- 

 red:ed for the Medka) it would be 

 a great Improvement to the Plants i 

 for when they have Room enough 

 they are very fubjecH: to branch out 

 on every Side; and become very 

 ftrongj {o that when they are iti 

 Rows, that the Ground between 

 them can be ftirr'd with a Hand- 

 Plough, it will caufe themtoflioot 

 much ftronger than when they 

 c;row fo dole that there can be no 

 Culture beftow'd on them. 



I have taken up Roots of this 

 kind, where they have grown 

 fingly, and kept clear from Weeds, 

 whofe Shoots have fpread near two 

 Feet wide, and were much ftronger 

 than thofe which grew nearer to- 

 gether upon the fame Soil. 



There are fome Perlbns who re- 

 commend the fowing Ofi^ts or Barley 

 with this Seed, but that is a very 

 lad Method, for what is gain'd 

 from the Crop of Corn will be 

 doubly loft in the Saint loin ; and 

 this generally holds true in moft 

 Sorts of Grafs-Seeds, for the Corn 

 growing over it, doth fo weaken 

 the Crop beneath, that it Icarcely 

 recovers its Strength in a Year's 

 Time after. 



The Ground in which this Seed 

 is Ibwn, fhould be well ploughed 

 and made very fine ,• and if you fbw 

 it in Rows, the Drills (hould be 



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made eighteen Inches afunder, and 

 about two Inches deep, in which 

 the Seed fhould be fown indiffe- 

 rently thick J for if the Plants come 

 up too clofe, it will be very cafy to 

 hoe them out, fo as to leave the 

 remaining ones fix or eight Indies 

 afunder J for the Ground fhould be 

 hoed, after the Plants are come up, 

 to deftroy the Weeds, which if 

 fufFer'd to grow, would foon over- 

 bear the young ones, and deftroy 

 them ; but when the Plants have 

 obtain'd Strength, they will pre- 

 vent the Weeds from growing up 

 amongft them. 



The firft Year after fbwing, you 

 fhould by no Means feed it down, 

 for the Crown of the Roots being 

 then young and tender, the Cattle 

 would eat it fb low as to entirely 

 deftroy the Roots ; and if large 

 Cattle were let in upon it, they 

 would trample it down fo much 

 as to prevent its (hooting again: 

 Therefore the firft Year it fhould 

 be mowed, which fhould be done 

 when it is in Flower, being careful 

 to turn it often, that it may the 

 fboner dry and be rcmov'd j for 

 while it continues upon the Ground, 

 it greatly retards the Roots from 

 fliooting again. 



The Time when this Crop will 

 be fit to cut the firft Year, is to- 

 ward the latter End of July or the 

 Beginning of Auguft : After this is 

 clear 'd oft^ the Roots will foon fhoot 

 again, and by the End of September 

 (provided the Seafon be favourable) 

 there will be a fine Crop fit for feed- 

 ing: At which Time, or foon after, 

 you may turn in Sheep, which will, 

 in eating down the Grafs, inrich 

 the Ground with their Dung, 

 whereby the Roots will be greatly 

 ftrengthened ; but you fliould not 

 fuffer them to remain too long 

 upon it, left, as I before obferv'd, 



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