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been hitherto an undetermined point, whether there exist any specific difference in the seed, se- veral ingenious cultivators have made experi- ments, which seem to countenance the affirmative side of the question. According to a late experi- ment of the Reverend Mr. Laurent of Bury St. Edmunds, recorded in the General View of the Agriculture of Suffolk, the Spring Tare sown in autumn, was destroyed by the winter frosts, whilst the Winter Tare sustained no damage; and the Winter Tare sown in March, became in the end mildewed, nor did a single pod of it ripen. Al- though they may answer equally and indiscrimi- nately for the spring sowing, with the view of fodder, the necessity of keeping them separate for the autumnal is evident. The smallness and blackness of the seed, are said to be the distinc- tions of the Winter Tare.

As a seed crop, Tares are generally supposed precarious, and the produce not expected large, perhaps from one to three quarters per acre; but this arises in great measure from defective culture. When a good crop of seed is the object, Tares

ought ever to share the advantages of the Pea

culture; they should be drilled upon a well-tilled and manured soil, and may then in truth be esteemed one of our best ameliorating crops. Seed, a bushel uponan acre. In the common me- thod two or three bushels of seed are required, which may be harrowed in upon the autumnal fallow, or what is preferable, upon a fresh plough- ing. Rooks and pigeons are well known to be

dreadful