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tily having been sown. Be it rye-grass or rubbish, f understand 

 seldom less than a sackful ('three heaped bushels ) an acre is 

 thrown on, whereas one gallon an acre of clean wiunowed real 

 rye-grass seed is abundantly sufficient on such soil as the vale 13 

 covered with. The soil is a rich deep loam." 



Clover (red and Dutch) is more sown here for hay, than with 

 us, though it is much more difficult to make good hay of it in this 

 climate. It is sowed in the spring as with us, perhaps twenty 

 pounds to the acre. We commonly sow five to ten pounds. Ar- 

 thur Young tried about a dozen experiments fo ascertain the most 

 profitable quantity of clover seed to sow, and concluded his re- 

 port as follows: "The more seed, as far as 20 pounds per acre, 

 undoubtedly the better." This is a plain fact, contradicted by no 

 part of the experiments ; and the great inferiority of five to sev- 

 en pounds, shows equally clear that such a portion of seed is too 

 small for an acre. Where land is well manured, less seed is re- 

 quired : 12| pounds seem the proper quantity on very rich, grav- 

 elly soil. A bushel of clover seed weighs sixty to sixty-four 

 pounds. In ground intended for mowing but one or two years, 

 biennial varieties of the rye-grass are sown, which are of stronger 

 growth than the perennial. They are also sometimes sown with 

 permanent grasses, giving on a deep rich soil, a heijvier burthen 

 of grass the first year of cutting than these would io. For this 

 purpose I have thought it might be well to sow the biennial or 

 sub-perennial rye-grass seed with timothy, which does not usual- 

 ly yield a fair crop at its first cutting, and have twice attempted 

 to make trial of the Italian rye-grass, but in both cases the seeds 

 failed of germination. 



I saw one field of grass that had been mowed eight years, and 

 had received a dressing of thirty hundred weight of bones— it pro- 

 mises lair yet to bear heavy swathes lor some time to come. 



The beet in England is said to yield the largest weight in roots 

 and leaves, of any other root crop known. The climate of the 

 United States, like that of France, is much better adapted to the 

 beet and much less favorable to the ruta baga than that of Eng- 

 land. The beet is much less liable to be injured by Insects os 



