. 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. iiocK VI. BUCK-WHEAT. 935. excellencies, perhaps as many to good farmi-rs, as any other grain or pulse in use.
. 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. iiocK VI. BUCK-WHEAT. 935. excellencies, perhaps as many to good farmi-rs, as any other grain or pulse in use. It is of an enriching nature, having the quality of preparing for wheat, or any other crop. One bushel sows an acre of land well, which is but a fourth of the expense of ; Its principal value is not so nnicli in the crop as in the oreat <Tood it docs the land by shading it from the heat of the sun. When the wheat fallow can be perfectly cleaned before the middle of June, it is far better to sow the ground with buck- wheat than let it be bare; the wheat crop, whether the dung be laid on before or after the buck-wlieat, will be one third better than without it. (J. M.) 6112. There are different species in cultivation, and P. tataricum [fig. 807. a.) is said by some to be nearly as productive as P. Fagopyrum. Von Thaer, however, is of a different opinion. In Nioal P. emarginktum (i) is cultivated. According to M. Dccandolle, the farmers of Piedmont, especially in the valley of Lucerne, chiefly employ the P. tatiricum; because it ripens more quickly, and is therefore less likely to srilfer from cold summers, or from being sown on the sides of the The Pied- montese distinguish the P. FagopJ^rum by tlie name of " Formentino rie Savoic," and the P. tataricum by that of " granette," and " Formcntine de ; The principal objection to the latter is, that its flowers ex. jiand irregularly and unequally, and that the flo
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