ROLLING OF SEEDS.
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In all the system of Farming and Garden
ing there is not more useful tool than the
Roller. Most of the complaints we receive
of seeds not growing, is owing to their not
being rolled. Celery, Spinage, Onion, and
indeed almost every other kind of seeds, will
not vcgetate, except the ground is rolled af-
ter the seed is sown, or except heavy rain
falls, to beat the ground, which answers the
same purpose. Where there is no roller
on the premises, the following may answer
as substitutc:--


After the seed is sown, and the ground
well raked, take board or boards. Of the
whole length of the beds-lay them fat on
the ground, beginning at one edge of the bed
walk the whole length of the board this
will press the soil on the seed: then shift the
board, till you have thus gone over the
whole bed; and in dry weather cover your
seed beds for forty eight hours with boards
laid fiat on the soil, and the seeds will come
up almost Immediately; and if no boards are
at hand tread in the seed with your feet, OF
strike on the beds with the blade Of your
spade or shovel.