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Other exhausting crops, without resting and refresh- 
ing them by a regular rotinc, or succession of crops, 
and thus have reduced your fallow grounds below 
the advantage of tillage with a potatoe fallow; you 
may I'ecover such lands in one season, by sowing 
early in June, or July, from one to two bushels of 
buck-wheat to the acre, upon a deep ploughing; and 
^ when your crop is in full bloom in July, or August, 
roll down the buck-wheat with a common farm roller, 
or where this is wanting, you may perform the same 
^operation with the back of your harrow, (giving it an 
additional weight, as occasion may require.) This 
should be done by laying off your field into lands, 
as you intend to plough, so that your plough may not 
bc_^ choaked by crossing, or meeting the heails of 
your buck-wheat. Care should be taken to bury 
your crop as deep as possible, that the buck- wheat 
may all be covered, and the depth of your soil im- 
proved by the fermentation. The heads of the buck- 
wheat which may appear uncoveretl upon the field, 
may be prevented from seeding, by one or two light 
harrowings. This crop will undergo a strong fernien- 
tati(yi, and prepare your old tired fallows tor a suc- 
cessful crop of winter grain. If your field is of a 
light sandy soil, you may sow rye, or even wheat 
upon the tops of your buck-wheat furrows. In the 
season of sowing, drag in your seed with a long 
toothed drag, or cover your seed with the plough, 
as you choose. If jou have a clay, or stiff ^^oil, you 
may cross (ilough in August, and proceed in the usual 
way of soH'ing ; both will answer well. This pro- 
cess will prepare your field for a clover crop, (.tee 
article Clover,) which may be cut for hay, or rolled 
and ploughed in, when in full bloom, after the manner 
of the buck-wheat, and thus prepare your fields for 
any successful tillage yrni may choose. I cannot say' 
from experience, that the English while potatoes may- 
be planted with success upon the top of your buck- 
wheat dressing; but as the potatoes will not exhaust 
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