FACT NUMBER ONE. 29 



weeds, even if heavily charged with either the grass or the 

 thistle, or with any other poison vegetable, for four or five 

 years, and all the increase of labor and extra expence, and 

 will be more than counterbalanced in the quantity and 

 quality of the crop even of the first year's produce. 



When the land thus dressed, is designed either for mow- 

 ing or pasturage, the timothy seed should be scattered im- 

 mediately after the last harrowing ; for it will then take 

 early root, form an early sward, and help to smother all bad 

 weeds ; forming, at the same time, a protection to the young 

 clover stocking, sown in the spring of the year, both from 

 the sun and the frost. 



