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Watering is a species of cultivation which will be noticed 

 under the culture of grasses, but which might also be very ad- 

 vantageously employed to all grain in the spring months. 



Culture. — The culture of vegetables in farming divides itself 

 into, 1st, The different grains or corns; 2dly, The different 

 grasses ; 3dly, Roots and leaves, or other herbage ; and, 

 4thly, Particular crops, as hops, madder, rape, &c; or gar- 

 den vegetables, as onions, spinage, Sec. 



1. The different grains or corns are either cultivated in broad- 

 cast, or in drills. The former method is in most cases the best 

 with corns and grasses, especially on cohesive soils ; the latter 

 almost always the best method with roots, leaves, and indeed 

 all the others. The different corns are commonly sown by rota- 

 tion, one species succeeding another every year. 



% The grasses are either cultivated a number of years toge- 

 ther, as in pasture fields, meadows, and lucern, &c. ; or only two 

 or three, as in the case of sown hay crops. A knowledge of the 



That this pasture would not only be equally good with that where no salt is used, 

 but much better and earlier, is evident from the effect of salt marshes. This subject 

 deserves the attention of the present enlightened administration ; and it may serve as 

 one instance to shew what thin partitions separate mankind from the most impor- 

 tant discoveries, and their application to the necessary arts of animal existence. 

 What immense advantages might not result from it in years of scarcity ! 



