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season ; the result can only lead to its condemnation, and the 
cultivator, by this injudicious step, becomes deprived of a valuable 
auxiliary for fodder and manure, which he might have enjoyed, 
had he put the seed into the ground in due season. 
I would, therefore, strongly recommend to every farmer in the 
Southern counties who studies the increase of manure, and fru- 
gality in his stable and stall expenditure, to sow every year a 
certain breadth of Cooper's early rye, sufficient to last him from 
the middle of April to the second week in May, or middle of 
that month ; and a somewhat larger breadth of the St. John's-day 
rye, to succeed the former, being sufficient to last him to the 
third or fourth week in June. With the aid of these two he can 
well keep his stock tied up until the racer vetches, winter barley, 
common winter vetches, and clovers come in, and place him at 
his ease, with a latitude of choice of green fodder. 
Should the grain of rye be his object, either for sale or for 
rearing or fattening cattle, the Tyrolese giant rye, the great 
northern rye, or the Russian broad-leaved rye, or, according to 
Le Bon Jardinier, le Seigle die Vierlande, are better adapted 
for that purpose than the common rye, or St. John's-day rye. 
If any gentlemen should feel disposed to try any of these 
varieties of rye, they will naturally inquire where they can pro- 
cure the seed. The numerous members of the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society have the best means of ascertaining the extent 
of the supply which they can obtain from their own peculiar 
seedsmen, Messrs. T. Gibbs and Sons, and from the several 
other eminent seedsmen in London, whose attention has for more 
than a twelvemonth been called to the subject by the papers 
which have appeared in the Society's Journal from the pens of 
Mr. Pusey and others, and the members are also the best judges 
of the fidelity and accuracy with which those traders respectively 
respond to the orders they receive. But failing a supply from 
those quarters, I would refer my readers to Messrs. Vilniorin, 
St. Andrieux, et Co., 30, Quai de la Megisserie, dit de la 
Ferraille, Paris, of whose tried correctness, accuracy, and fidelity 
— of whose extreme courtesy and liberality — of whose varied, 
extensive, and freely imparted information — of whose numerous, 
curious, and valuable agricultural experiments, nearly thirty years 
of almost annual dealings impel me to speak with the utmost 
confidence and gratitude ; and from whom I do not recollect that 
I have ever failed to obtain whatever quantity of St. John's-day 
rye I wanted. But should the orders issued to them exceed their 
supply, I can also state that Messrs. Booth of Hamburgh have 
occasionally supplied me with the same article, and that the 
goodness, cleanness, and extensive and curious variety of their 
seeds, and careful attention to orders, merit very high jjraise. It 
