336 Calendar of Farming Operations. 



facing the wind that the bent plants may be blown upright again. 

 Stock grass lands. Lay in meadows. Top beans. The hedger and 

 labourer-of-all-woik should now have finished with the roads, 

 fences, &c., and be ready to help in getting in the crops. 



Juve. — Drill swedes in rows. Haymaking now begins. Do not 

 leave the first crop of seeds too long growing as the second crop 

 will suffer. Use tedding machines for hay well across the wind, 

 which then blows the hay clear ofi'the machine in the heaviest crop, 

 prevents clogging, and does not oppress the horse with heat. Oil the 

 machine well, and let it be worked at a trot : the faster and higher 

 it flies the more thoroughly will the hay be made and the sooner 

 ready to carry. Plough in buckwheat and vetches for manure, just 

 as they are going out of bloom. Leguminous plants are said to have 

 a special power of assimilating and absorbing the nitrogen of the 

 air. Plant out cabbages. \\ eed wheat, beans, peas. Soil live 

 stock in yards. Cut clover, meadow gi-ass, santfoin for hay. Cart 

 out manure, and plough it in as soon as spread : evaporation 

 now takes place, so that its salts of ammonia are dissipated. Furze 

 seeds, if neglected in April, may still be sown. Sow white 

 mustard after tares, to be eaten down in August and September, 

 before flowering ; it comes in sooner than the turnips, which are 

 otherwise a better crop : sow 7 lb. per acre broadcast. Watch 

 sheep, the fly is on the wing, and dress them. Wash and shear 

 sheep : have ointment ready for wounded places. Ploe carrots 

 and potatoes. Weed flax. Tie your hopbines and prune them when 

 needful. Hoe young lucerne. Cai-ry chalk, marl, and clay. Clean 

 out ponds if not very short of water, else leave them till the winter. 

 If you graze your cows, keep them in by day, out by night. Bum 

 clay. Plant holly hedges, protecting them by hurdles and dressing 

 with chalk. Burn lime : mix dry lime and salt together; for your 

 wheat two bushels of lime to one of salt, and protect the mixture 

 from the weather. Look to your bees : they are about to swarm. 

 Hire harvest-men. Inclose waste ground. On turnip ground keep 

 harrows and roller working close behind the ploughs in dry 

 weather. Sow hardy turnips on land which has borne vetches and 

 rye. Beans are in bloom. Horse-hoe mangold wurzel, clear for 

 the second time, and hand-hoe. Single carrots and parsnips to 

 intervals of about 8 inches to a foot, and repeat the hoeings through 

 the summer. Continue planting out cabbage in a rich highly- 

 manured soil : planted now, or early in July, they will be useful 

 food for winter and spring use : horse-hoe and hand-hoe deeply as 

 long as there is room between the rows. Hand or horse-hoe buck- 

 wheat towards the end of the month. Hoe chicory towards end of 

 month also, when it will require to be singled out to or 8 inch 

 spaces ; as pasture, it will be read}'- for stocking early in the month, 

 and ready for cutting all the summer. Watch growth of grass- 

 lands, and stock accordingly. If the season be genial the pastures 

 frequently will grow with such rapidity as to lose a portion of their 

 nutritive value. In that case crowd on stock ; bullocks first, sheep 



