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es In all labour there is profit," is the observation of the wisest chäracter of antiquity: hut this Sentimeat must be un- derstood with Selden's grains of allowance, for procrastination will disappoint the hopes of every candidate for emolument. The Same writer has Said that there 1s a time for all things, but if that time be neglected, we are told“ the fool foldeth his hands together and eateth his own flesh."

Accustomed to the parochial duties of the Sacred profession, at the regular rtevolutions of the vernal and autumnal Seed time, 1 have dwelt with as much earnestness on the necessity of avoiding delay, as I have in the time of harvest, on tbe neceszity of gratitüde to the beneficent deity, for the produc- tions ofexuberantnature. Driven about from curacy to curacy in ten diflerent equnties, I have Scen many a melancholy face, and poured the balm of consolation into many a melan- choly heart, labourng under the destructive effects of delay. But I have rather been disposed to aſftord thisrelief by exciting to active duty, than to passive contemplation. To many az farmer who has admitted the time of winter seed to escape, 1 have successfully recommended the expedient of Spring SOwing, and as the ime is approaching when this practice may be adopted, I will State the most judicious experiment of the kind that has fallen within my knowledge,

I hope, Mr. Editor, it requires no apology, to propose that useful information should be widely circulated through! rhe medium of your work, and 1 will give the account with very little variation from the form in which it was Submitted to a respectable public Society,

The experiment was made on the large Scale, and was tried expressly with a view ot drawing faithful interences on the zubject: and here Jet the reader recollect delays; 1 tried a Single acre on my glebe, in which the Sowing was posterior to the middle of March, and the product was a bushel.“ They 1 returned and Saw vanity under the Sun."

Aboutthe 20th of February(Says the farmer) I commenced zowing, which was continued as circumstances permitted till the middle of March, and in thattime one hundred and forty acres were Sown, besides ten acres afterwards ploughed down. The 5011 of the greatest part of the land thus Sown, was a deep loam ineumbent upon clay, and the remainder was a lighter loan upon a gravelly bottom."Thirty acres had been Summer tal- lowed, limed, and dunged, the preceding year. Ninety-five acres were after a crop of drilled beans, which had been com- pletely horse-hoed. Fourtecn acres had been occupied by turnips and potatoes, both drilled and horse-hoed; and 5ix acres had borne Summer tares. None of the fields had re- ceived more than one ploughing atter the preceding crop was removed, except those under Summer fallow, which had even