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resting. Forty bushels can generally be obtained from 

 an acre. 



Some farmers have not been successful with barley. 

 It was probably owing to the want of manure^ or suffi- 

 cient ploughing and harro-wing ; to degenerated seed ; to 

 the kind not being adapted to the soil ; or, to an insuffi- 

 ciency of seed, which caused the grain to be choaked 

 with weeds. If the farmer has satistied himself as to 

 all these particulars, and still finds himself unsuccessful, 

 he may conclude that the soil or the climate where he 

 lives, is unfavourable to its culture. 



BUCK WHEAT. 



The principal excellence of this grain is for making 

 an agreeable bread ; for the cakes made of its Hour, 

 if eaten while warm, are generail}- much relished. — 

 When ground, or steam boiled,' it U very good for fat- 

 ling swine, and other animals : The straw is useful for 

 caUle and sheep, if salt is spriokied amongst it, when 

 staked : And the flowers afford food for bees at a season 

 when the meadows and trees are nearly stripped of 

 them. 



A hght mell w soil suits it best. It will grow with 

 more indifferent culture than, perhaps, any other grain. 

 It is much assisted by gypsum, where that manure is 

 suitable to the soil. 



It should be sown from half a bushel to 3 pecks to 

 the acre, if the land is good ; if poor land, one bushel 

 is best. To wet the seed, and dry it witii a sufficient 

 sprinkling of plaster, will much assist the growth. Rol- 

 ling immediately after harrowing has been found useful. 



Buck-wheat should be sown just early enough for the 

 crop to escape the frost. It is an old maxim not to 

 sow it until the chesnut trees are in full bloom. Mr. Dcane 

 says it should not be sown till after the middle of May. 

 About the first of July may be considered the proper 

 time. 



The crop when ripe, is cut with a cradle, left a few 

 days to dry, raked in small bunches in the morning, 

 carted in the heat of the day to the barn, or centre of 

 the field, and threshed out im.mediately. It is said, the 

 crop is easier raised^ harvested and threshed, than any 

 other. 



