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to the acre.

.. oiiiTAKlSrvinnneims Canary-Seed.— This is grown mostly• 8 .t ,7 f rlanet andsent to London fee. for feeding Canary andin the Isle of Ihanet and seat' to Btable c t0 the f arme r.

ntbpr son^-birds, ami considered a \ei> H' i

oilier son a on », huantitv of seed is about one bushel and a

It i> sown in April, and the quantity v

half per acre.

„„ ,. * T „. p.,__The Gray Hog-pea used to be the

only one considered ,, the ^"7 »» r y Oner varieties

since the improvement»«««^™™ J is about tw0 oushels amlcultivated ,n large quant*«j ™«£ frum thrcp l0 le „ q » arters .a half per acre, and ^e piodnce van ^ ^

The varieties of Peas are m.ny,bu the p 1 ^^

culture are the Early (.hai It .i Pea ,hUJ ^

Bine. All these: are dwarf ^""^ ™* if tbe femer > s land

Sn^-vys^*»•■» *»> t,,ey ™ m fet ° h a cousiderabiy

^vaS ffare'found to boi, are either used whole, or split,u- , ■ Il„„ hv steeoine them in water till the cotyledons swell, afterSnicn ILv are d,td on a kiln and passed through « nrill j which justbreaking the husk, the two cotyledons fall apart.

SK POLYGONUM Fagopyrum. Bock-Wbeat.— This is usually

85. rV^WL e. r. he seed ls the best food forsown in places where ph. asa its are, ore ,

and cakes made ot tbe nowc often

b-shels are us^.y S;r p™. ™^» y tluck on the land,

Phelps t £» *5 ™* e " a S a " th f W n s ThC Cr ° P d06S ^stand on the ground more than ten or twelve weeks.

86. SECALE cerml^J^-^^

* \t the request of Sir John Sinclair I made an experiment, fromdirections give], by a French emigrant of roB mg Peasew.thurmemwhich had been steeped a cons,, en.We qua ./^^ ^In the course of twenty-four horns they had ™°» » '

thevwere put into the ground. An equal quantity were steeped inlater- and the same quantity also that had not been steeped, were

own in three adjoining spots of land. There was a d.fierence in hecoming up of the crops, of some days in each ; but that with the abovepre arat on took the lead, and was by far the best crop on the g, oundT i an experiment worth attending to. 1 IS usual to prepare wheat

in a similar way, but no other grain that 1 have ever heard of.