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lowed, and deep ploughing: the sorts, the EARLY sHorT TOP, the sALMON, and the TURNIP-ROOTED, Seed, two or three gallons per acre. As soonas the plants appear, every other row Is cut up by the horse-hoe, leaving the rows twenty inches apart. The plants having got two or three rough leaves, they are set out eighteen inches asunder, and kept clean by repeated horse and hand-hoeing.. This crop is also late, and sometimes out until Christ- mas, rain being necessary to rot the pods: pro- duce, eight to twenty-four bushels per acre. ~Grasses.—March and Aprilare the chief sea- sons for sowing Grasses, whether by themselves or with corn. It ought to be a standing rule in the broadcast husbandry, to sow no spring-corn with- out Grass-seeds of some description, for a tempo- rary ley, to continue one, two, or more years, agreeable to the farmer’s convenience, and the nature of his soil. This practice is a prime instru- ment in the regular courses of crops, it affords the iand a necessary respite from corn-bearing, at the same time liberally affording more advantageous products; lastly, it leaves a clean refreshed soil with the best possible seed-bed for wheat. Should circumstances render it desirable to sow Grasses among the wheat, it may be done early thismonth. Crovenr, the red or broad-leaved species, is the most valuable of the artificial grasses, as food, green or dry, for cattle of every species, and as seed for the market. From ten to fifteen pounds per acre is the common quantity sowed; but the best authority, grounded on long experience,’ proves the advantage of sowing twenty and up- a wards,