Practical Agriculture. 
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;lect a clean piece of wheat-stubble, on which they sow Trz/b- Trifoliura. 
.im incarnatum for feeding off. This is best done in August, 
rtainly not later than September ; the seed, about 20 lbs. 
r acre, being drilled in the stubble without ploughing, but 
ice harrowed. Some farmers simply sow the seed broad- 
est, and drive the sheep over it to trample it in. If trifolium 
sown late, it is very liable to be partially if not entirely 
voured by slugs. When the crop is saved for seed, it may 
oduce from 5 to 10 cwts. per acre, and is generally cleared 
iFin time for late turnips. Trefoil is sometimes sown in April Trefoil. 
1 the wheat-crop, and is fed off the following spring, after the 
ifolium is done ; and on most soils turnips are taken after both, 
e land being ploughed, once, twice, or thrice, and manured 
cording as time, the weather, and the foulness or poverty of 
e land may dictate. Rye is not very extensively cultivated ; 
at it is sometimes sown after the stubble-turnips and trifolium 
ave been put in, and affords a useful ten-days' feeding as the 
rst green-meat in the spring. Next come vetches, sown in Vetches, 
ifferent plots and at certain intervals from September to 
'ecember ; and then again a few from February to April, 
he quantity of seed is 2J or 3 bushels per acre. The first 
)wing is mixed with a little rye, the next with refuse-wheat 
r winter oats ; but beans are considered best of all, as the old 
leep eat them, they hold the vetches up well, and both ripen 
)gether if saved for seed. The land for the vetches is gene- 
illy ploughed but once ; but for the later sowings in the 
jtumn, and also in the spring, the ground, if foul, is skim- 
loughed or scarified, harrowed, cleaned, and sometimes ma- 
ured before receiving the seed-furrow. 
The vetches are eaten by sheep, confined in hurdles from May 
) August. At first they consume the tares on the ground ; but 
hen the food becomes long and old it is cut and placed in 
ttle wicker-cages, which are used for hay in the winter. Fat 
heep and lambs, in addition to the green forage, have an allow- 
nce of corn, pollard, malt-dust, or cake ; or, more commonly 
till, are supplied with beans. As soon as the vetches are off, the 
[and receives from one to three ploughings for turnips, sometimes 
iressed with manure or artificials. But the droppings of the 
sheep are commonly sufficient to produce a good crop of roots. 
The early vetches are fed off in time for swedes, while turnips 
ollow the later feedings. The late or spring-sown tares are 
,-enerally grown on land in a state unfit for turnips, and to be 
fterwards prepared for a corn-crop. 
There is not a very large extent of country in which the 
and will bear with any certainty a green-crop and a root-crop 
in the same year. The land is often too retentive to be kind for 
