. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 922 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt in. The soil being hroiiglit to a fine tilth, the seed is sown in April or tlie beginni
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 922 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt in. The soil being hroiiglit to a fine tilth, the seed is sown in April or tlie beginning of May, generally broad-cast. The quantity ol seed is from two quarts to a gallon per acre, and it should either be fresh, or, if two or three years old, steeped a few days in water previously to being sown. Being a biennial, and no advantage obtained from it the first year, it is sometimes sown with corn crops in the manner of clover, which, when the soil is in a very rich stale, may answer, provided that hoeing, weeding, and stirring take place as soon the corn crop is cut. The best crops, however, will obviously be the result of drilling and cultivating the crop alone. The drills may be a foot asunder, and the plants thinned to six inches in the row. In the broad-cast mode, it is usual to thin them to six or eight inches' distance every way : often, wlien weld succeeds corn crops, it is never either thinned, weeded, or hoed, but left to itself till the plants are in full 59(S1. The crop is taken by pulling up the entire plant: ami the proper period for this purpose is when the bloom has been produced the whole lengtji of the stems, and the plants are just beginning to turn of a liglit or yellowish colour ; as in the beginning or middle of July in the second year. Tlie plants are usually from one foot to two feet and a half in heigl)t. It is thought by some advantageous to pidl it rather early, without waiting for the ripening of the seeds; as by this means ther
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