24. FARMER'S CALENDAR.[MARCH.

CANARY-SEED.—This well-known bird-seed is chiefly cultivated in the Isle of Thanet, Kent, for the London seed-market. It is, I believe, rather an uncertain crop, both in point of product and market-price. It requires a rich soil, and is suit- able for land newly broken up. The common tilths for itin Kent, are summer fallow, bean- stubble, and clover-lay; the last best. The land being in middling condition, a coat of good rot- ten dung 1s required, Winter tillage supposed, as carly in the spring as the soil is sufficiently dry, the seed is broad-cast into seed-furrows, tw cee inches apart, five gallons to an acre, and wellharrowed in. As soon as the blade appears, and the intervals are sufficiently distinct, they are cleaned with a Dutch hoe, and the operation re- peated again in May and June, with the common hoe; every weed being carefully cut up, and the plants thinned where too thick. It is late cut with a hook, called a twibel and a hink; by which it 1s laid in wads of about half a sheaf each. The wads must be turned from time to time, in order to have the full benefit of the sun and rains, and they sometimes continue on the field until De- cember, the seed not vegetating, or receiving any kind of injury. Without this exposure, it would be scarce possible to thrash out Canary-seed, it clings so remarkably to the husk. Produce, three to hs quarters from an acre, and the crop some- times repeated successive years on the same land.

RapIsH-sEED is cultivated in the same place, under the same circumstances, much manure al- lowed,