TARES. 31T 



He has pradised rhe husbandry before, and received mate- 

 rial benefit from it. 



Mr. Thorp, on Governor Bentinck's estate, in. 

 Marshland, last year ploughed in buck as a manure for 

 wheat, and it answered greatlv, improving the crop as far 

 as it extended to an inch : and this year he repeated it, for- 

 tunately ; for in such a drought as succeeded he had not 

 been able to have ploughed the land at all. 



At Felthorpe, buck is considered as superior to ail other 

 crops with which to sow grass-seeds — it does not rob thctn 

 — it shelters better than any other from the sun — it is late 

 sown, and consequently oifers an entire spring for a second 

 or third destrudtion of weeds: these are valuable circum- 

 stances, and merit the attention of those who wish to varv 

 the methods of laying down land to grass. 



SECT. XIII. — TARES. 



The culture of this plant has increased very consider- 

 ably in Norfolk of late years. Within my memory they 

 are multi[)lied at least tenfold. 



Mr. Overman begins sowing winter tares about 

 Michaelmas, once more l:efore Christmas, and sometimes 

 twice and thrice more, with spring tares for succession. 

 After mowing he does not plough the land ; but runs 

 sheep over it till wheat sowing. 



But the cultivator who has made by far the greatest 

 exertions in this husbandry that I ever met with, is Mr. 

 PuRDis, of Eggmore, who has 300 acres every year, secdr 

 ing no more than is necessary 10 supply himself ; they are 

 fed by his sheep ; used in soiling his numerous horses; and 

 immense quantities made into hay. His crops of 1802 I 



