The Horse Hoeing Husbandry Or A Treatise On The Principles Of Tillage And Vegetation Wherein Is Taught A Method Of Introducing A Sort Of Vineya PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...clay land is best to be sent to for seed wheat, whatever sort of land it be to be sowed upon; a white clay is a good change for a red clay, and a red for a white. That from any strong land is better than from a light land, and the old rhyme is, that sand is a change for no land. But from whatever land the seed be taken, if it was not changed the preceding year, it may possibly be infected, and then there may be danger, though we have it immediately from never so proper a soil. The strongest objection that has been yet made against censtant annual crops of wheat is, that those grains of the precedent crop which happen to shed, and grow in the following crop, will be in danger of smuttiness, for want of changing those individual seeds. All I can say in answer is, that during these five years, which is aU the time I have had these annual crops, this objected inconvenience never has happened to me, even when a precedent crop has been smutty. The reason I take to be, that a crop very early planted is not so apt to be smutty; and if it be not planted early, the grains that are shed grow, and are killed before, or at the time of planting the next crop. This saves a crop following a smutty one (which is always occasioned by bad seed, or bad ordering) and when the former crop was planted with good seed well ordered, the shattered grains of that may produce clean wheat the second year; and it is very unlikely, that any breed of these grains should remain to grow in the crop the third year. ' CHAP. XIII. Of Blight. The ancients did not take notice, that there were several sorts of the blight; neither did they inquire after their causes, which unless they knew, it was not likely they should find, any effectual remedy toprevent. They called it in...