The new farmer's calendar; or, monthly remembrancer, for all kinds of country business: comprehending all the material improvements in the new husbandry, with the management of live stock ... / By a farmer and breeder [i.e. John Lawrence].

  • Lawrence, John, 1753-1839.
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The new farmer's calendar; or, monthly remembrancer, for all kinds of country business: comprehending all the material improvements in the new husbandry, with the management of live stock ... / By a farmer and breeder [i.e. John Lawrence]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SufTex, if it be not found in the neighbourhood. I believe it is ufual in SufTex to let the furze remain three years on the land. Pease.—On light foils, it is rnoft advan- tageous always to fow white peafe, fince they will anfwer the end of Cattle-feed equally well with grey, and if the fample be fine and good boilers, fetch a much higher price at market. It is not common to horfe-hoe thefe, being apt to receive damage by the treading of the cattle, and the rows need not be farther apart than to admit conveniently the hand-hoe, by which they require to be well earthed-up. They are fowed throughout March and April, as the land can be prepared, and a feafon obtained. Podding, or picking green peafe, for the Lon- don market, is a very valuable branch of the bufinefs of fome farms, within a few miles of the metropolis. Spring Wheat.—The culture of this ar- ticle fnould never be attempted, but upon light lands of great natural fertility, and its profits, even on fuch, compared with other grain, are very queftionable. It ought ever, either be drilled, or fowed with feeds, that fome benefit may be fecured. It has been dif- puted, whether any fpecific difference exifl between fpring and winter wheat. I believe that which is ufually fold as fpring wheat, came originally from Siberian feed ; but, according c3 to