GROWING MUSTARD FOR FEED


AND ENRICHING SOILS.
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l beg to hand you the following state.
ment Of the use Of growing mustard for
feed, or to plough in as a preparation for a
wheat crop, Il is very palatable to all
kinds Of cattle, and believe very whole
some. Think it far preferable to buck.
wheat, or any other vegetable with such
rapid growth. sowed five acres on the
llth Of July last, on rather inferior land, Of
light gravelly sod with chalk subsoiI,
where early turnips for wheat had failed.
It should be drilled inches apart, with
~ pounds Of seeds per acre. On the 25th
Of August | had measured portions cut in
different parts of the field, and weighed,
which on fair calculation, yielded G tons
per acre--it was in full bloom-and the
next day plOughed it in; which .consid-
er, being fall of vegetable matter, must be
an excellent dressing for wheat crop.
would invite any friend 10 make trial Of
mustard on better land than mine the ex-
Pense being so triaing compared with buck
wheat, which is 5s. per bushel, and requir-
ing two and halfbushels per acre, would
be lbs. 3d., whereas IL lbs. of mustard
seed, at 2d. per h., the price it is now SELL
ing at, would be 2s. per acre.-English
paper.