34 FARMER’S CALENDAR.[ APRIL,

and upon which, in either March or April,may be:

broad-cast, one bushel of seed, harrowed in, and lightly rolled. Pursue the carrot-culture, in weeding and hoeing, setting out the plants ten inches apart.‘The crop is harvested in August, after the usual method of seeds, and the land left in fine tilth for any future crop that convenience may require. It makes an excellent bed for any spring-feed crop. Why Mustard never follows Mustard, I know not; the third year, it seems, is fixed upon as the proper period of renewal. That I believe to be mere speculation. Product, two to seven quarters, upon an acre. I have heard of high-sounding profits being made from Mustard in the north, for the truth of which I cannot vouch; but five and twenty guineas per acre, I believe, have really been made in Essex, and in one instance, a load of wheat per acre ob- tained after the mustard.

Brank, Bucx, or Frencn Wueat.—This erain, on its first introduction into England, was lifted up by report far beyond its real value. I can speak of it from actual experience throughout a number of years, during which, I used it in large quantities, with cattle of every description,(sheep

‘ccepted) rabbits and poultry. The invariable result, its inferiority to every other grain, but su- periority éver other vegetable food, namely car- rots, potatoes, and the like. In the state of her- bage, cattle, I know, will eat it, but it is from Hopson’s choice, as a hundred trials have con- vinced me. Its fitness for ploughing into the land, is undoubted, on account both of its bulk and

succulence.

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