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firong land; and find it anfwer much bet- 
ter. fea jowing them with, corn: and 
there is a very lemdene fuperiority in fa-- 
vour. of. that _epra attice, when compared 
with that of fowing them with corn. The 
method ‘is to Gav: them as early i in the 
fpring as the land can be made fit 
them are mown off twice in “the courfe “of 
fummer;. and the land rolled after each 
mowing; by autumn, if the feafon has 
been tolerably favourable, a rich, luxu- 
riant pafture is produced.” 
Although the above method is well 
adapted to ftrone Jand, an improvement 
may be made uponit, by fowing along 
- with the grafs feeds one bufnel of tares or 
vetches. Where this is peas ee the 
crops fhould be mown tor hey as {oon as 
the vetches are got well into flower; by 
this method: the produce mown is rendered 
valuable, but in the former cafe it is of 
very little value, rarely worth the expence 
of cuttine.. The feeds thus having a free 
admifiion: of. air, will {pread, and get 
ttrength fait, and.the tares {pringing again, 
will, with: he feeds, form, in a fhort time, 
a moft excellent .patture for fheep. 
It isa fettled principle with me, that: 
the land cannot be too rich when fown 
with grafs feeds ; for the richer the land 
18, the: more Rast the feeds will carry, . 
and the ftock confequently leave a larger 
quantity of manure, and thus increafe its 
fertility in almoft an arithmetical. pregref- 
fion; and when the field is again plough- 
ed out, it will be in-a fate to produce 
the more plentiful crops of corn. On the 
other hand, if land be- fown down poor, 
at carries little {tock, remains poor as long 
as it lies in grats, ae when ploughed out, 
will fcarce clear expences. 
It was from reafoning in this manner, 
that Iwas led to fow orafs feeds without 
corn; whieh, I have done on a 
{pring fallow limed, as well as the fame 
kind of fallow manured ; and alfocn land 
well manured, which had been cropped 
the preceding year with potatoes: the 
two laft-have anfiwered the bet. My foil 
being a light fand, © preferred fowing 
forething along with the grafs feeds, that 
would foon:make-a 
therefore fowed one half peck of rape feed 
per acre along with the grafs.feeds5. as 
foon as it -got apretty good leafy 1 tavied 
in furch a ftock of fheep as I thought would 
eat itas fafas it grew jeby which ma- 
nagement, the rape affords a fhelter for 
the young,feeds, and. the fheep, at the 
fue time that they are eating thesrape, 
nd: faftening the ioil to the roots of the 
the 
‘tops ofthe weeds which may grow ey : 
winter and. 
good fheep paiture; I - 
Mr. Tuke on fowing iad Seeds, Se. 
feeds, are greatly enriching the land by 
the manure they leave. . The laft fummer 
I fowed. fome tares inftead of rape, at 
the rate of one buthel per acre, along 
with the grafs feeds, upon land which 
had. been “cropped ‘ with potatoes the year 
before; as foon as the tares had got about 
ancle deep, I turned in fome fheep;. but 
I foon found it almoft impeilible to keep 
it down with the ftock, and at this time 
it is as beautiful a piece of fwarth as I 
ever faw. 
I find it the beft practice, not to fow 
the feeds until a month or fix. weeks after 
the laft ploughing; in the fore. part. of 
that time, the land fhould be manured, if 
neceflary, with fhort manure; and repeat- 
ed opportunities taken, in dry weather, to 
“harrow it well, and it. fhould be ence 
rolled; by thete: means, the weeds are 
deftroyed, the land gets aconfiderable de- 
gree of firmnefs, t mc manure is well mixed 
with the foil, which lies within reach of 
the reots. of ane grafs, and the feeds le at 
a more equal depth than when the land is 
frefh ploughed; if any’ weeds fhould at- 
terwards appear, care fhould be taken to 
extirpate them. 
The feeds per acre I fhould recommend 
to be fown on light, or loamy foils,. are 
ten pounds of trefoil, fix pounds of white 
clover, four pounds of red clover, and ‘fix 
bufhels of shay feeds, if the latter can be 
depended upon to be of good kinds, and 
without a mixture of any thing prejudi- 
cial; but this is rarely to be met with : 
one nt of good hay feeds, I recommend 
one buthel of rye giafs ; and even df hay 
feeds are ufed, I fhould mix one peck of 
rye grafs with chetns unlefs a confiderable 
quantity of rye grafs appears contained 
among them, “which rarely happens. 
Rove grais, if properly managed in 
fpring, by being kept well eat down, is 
valuable grafs. JOHN TUKE.:. 
Lingcroft (near York), 
27th of 3d Month, 1798. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE high price of gall-nuts, and thé 
{car city as well as dearnefs} of oak- 
bark, being frequently fixbje&ts of com- 
plaint among thofe who. ule thefe in- 
gredients in their refpective employments ; 
and the Reculias ly ufeful art: of tanning 
and the dying of various articles af 
‘manufa&ure, depending, for their» per- 
feGion, on the highty aftringent qualities 
of. the two- above named. fubitances ; 
many ‘other tubfances have. been applied 
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