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been lying on is also ploughed and sown. Thus the mustard 
will get the earliest possible start, which in a dry season is an 
object of very great importance, as in such a season the greatest 
pinch of feed will be when the layers are fed bare and the 
mustard is not ready to begin. It will be found that the peas 
will " make " quite well on the fresh-ploughed land, and that no 
appreciable injury will be done to the mustard in carting them 
off. Some people prefer to cart the peas, as soon as they are 
cut, on to an old layer or a pasture to let them " make " there ; 
but this entails rather more labour. 
It will be sufficient to deal thus promptly with about 6 acres 
first. If the rest of the peas are not then ready to cart, proceed 
to deal similarly with 4 acres more. As soon as the peas are 
carted, sow another 4 acres, and on the remaining G acres sow 
coleseed instead of mustard. A fitting succession of feed will 
then be provided. We have seen a good crop of common turnips 
grown after peas ; but it is but rarely that turnips will mature in 
time to allow of the land being planted with wheat. Mustard 
Avill come to feed the most quickly of any plant we are 
acquainted with ; it is usually ready in about six weeks from 
the time of sowing. It has the additional recommendation of 
being a remarkably healthy plant to feed off, and an excellent 
preparation for wheat. For the information of those unaccus- 
tomed to the use of mustard, we may say that it is best not to 
begin feeding it off until it begins to bloom. By that time it 
will often attain the height of 3 feet, and will keep running and 
blooming till it reaches another foot higher, and during all this 
time it is excellent food for sheep. A friend of ours this year 
mowed his mustard, and carried it home to cut into chaff with 
straw, as food for neat stock, and he was very pleased with the 
result of his experiment. 
As soon as harvest is finished, work must be commenced on 
the wheat-stubbles. We should recommend that about 20 acres 
be ploughed and sown with rye, which makes the earliest spring- 
feed of any similar plant. On 26 acres — the grass having been 
first forked out — trifolium should be sown. For this crop 
ploughing will not be necessary, the seed thriving best when 
sown right on to the stubble. If the seed can be obtained in 
the " cosh " (that is, still encased in the husk it grows in), it 
will be the most sure to grow. Sow this broadcast on the land, 
at the rate of about a 4-bushel sack to an acre (equal to 2 pecks 
of clean seed), and harrow it well in. If the land is too hard to 
admit of sufficient mould being raised to cover the seed, it will 
be best to use the cleaned seed and to drill it, harrowing well 
before and after. In a wet season the seed is sure to grow ; but 
in a very dry season, unless it is covered, it is apt to be sprouted 
