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to be Town is from two to three bufhels per acre. 

 The grain, when ripe, is good food for pigs, 

 turkeys, and other kinds of poultry ; but I 

 hope never to fee nay countrymen reduced to 

 the fituation of the peafants in Germany, who 

 ufe it as a fubllitute for wheat. 



Buck-wheat particularly fuits blowing fand, 

 or any light foil ; as it grows quicker, and pro- 

 duces a greater abundance of food for cattle 

 than any other plant fown fo late in an equal 

 time could. 



SECTION LXXVII. 



Ohfer vat ions on Rye, for Spring-eating by 



Cattle. 



RYE is very beneficial, when fown amongft 

 tares in the autumn; as a proper quantity v/ill 

 fhelter the cares and draw them up. Rye is a 

 hardy plant on land that fuits it; and it will 

 grow to a great length on fuch land in lefs 

 time in the fpring than any thing I know of. 

 Rye anfwers the fame purpofe for tares as flicks 

 or rods do for peas 3 and they may be eaten 



well 



