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think there is no difference, excepting that winter tares have 
stood a winter which spring tares have not. 
A local law case, which created considerable interest alike 
to farmers and merchants, may be appropriately quoted by us. 
In the year 1895 a farmer bought a sample of winter tares 
from a Gorleston merchant, who had bought the tares from 
another farmer on the understanding that they were winter 
tares. The farmer who grew the sample had sown them in the 
autumn, gathered his seed in the spring, and according to 
the evidence he was perfectly right in describing them as 
winter tares; but the farmer who bought them in the autumn 
was dissatisfied with the crop he obtained, and alleged that 
spring tares had been sold to him in the place of winter tares 
which he had bought. 
It appeared that severe frost had at first stunted the growth 
of the crop, which, whilst the pleadings were progressing, 
considerably improved. A considerable amount of evidence 
was produced on either side, but none of the witnesses (many 
of whom were expert agriculturists and seedsmen) were 
able to satisfactorily explain the real difference between the 
so-called winter and spring tares, and the judge, in giving his 
verdict, carefully avoided the important question at issue, to 
the dissatisfaction of both parties. 
During a mild winter it is possible spring tares will stand, 
and sometimes a field is sown with tares which stands in part 
and dies in part in accordance with the shelter afforded to the 
plants, or to other causes for which it is difficult to account. 
To say the least of tares, they are a crop which cannot be 
depended upon. 
If tares are intended to be used for catch crops it is 
advisable to sow them with maize and other mixtures, as we 
have before recommended when dealing with that subject. 
Apparently the best time for sowing such is in the latter 
part of July, as they then come in at a time when second crop 
