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On Artificial Grasses. 



1st. If for spuing food only, six pecks of rye, and six pecks of tares may 

 be sown together, and it is not easy to contrive a crop which will pay better, and 

 leave the land in a more favourable condition for fallowing the ensuing summer.- 



If for SUMMER herbage, three bushels of tares to the acre will be 

 preferable. 



2nd. If for hay, the same quantity of seed as for summer herbage will be 

 sufficient. 



3rd. If for manure, four bushels of seed to the acre will be necessary. 



After the land has been ploughed, and harrowed once in a place, sow the 

 above quantities of seed, broadcast, then harrow the land well, and lay it dry by 

 ■H ater furrowing, and gripping or draining. Roll the land in the spring. 



4th. When a crop of seed is the object in cultivating any of these tares, 

 the land should be ploughed and harrowed two or three times in a place, previous 

 to drilling the seed, then drill two bushels of seed upon every acre, harrow the 

 land once in a place after drilling, and then lay it dry. As soon in the spring as 

 the land will bear a horse, the field should be rolled the cross way of the lands, 

 afterwards the crop should share the advantages of a pea culture, by horse and 

 hand hoeing it completely. 



In all these ways, tares are absolutely invaluable, and since their merits have 

 been known such a number of years, common sense is sadly at fault for their 

 frequent neglect. 



Notwithstanding the foregoing botanical description given of these two 

 kinds of tares, yet many of my readers may be at a loss to distinguish either the 

 seeds or the stems from one another. The seed of the winter tare is smaller, and 

 darker coloured than the summer tare; but the greatest characteristic to those 

 who are not skilled in botany, is, the winter tare vegetates with a seed leaf of a 

 fresh green colour, whereas the summer tare, comes up with a grassy spear of a 

 brown dusky hue. 



These are all the kinds of artificial grasses that ought to be sown upon land 



