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FEBRUARY. 



thoughts and the hands of the husbandman. 

 Manures too are carried to grass lands. Plough- 

 ing is on the increase, and spring wheat, beans, 

 peas, oats, and tares are sown. In mild 

 weather, hedges are planted ; overgrown fences 

 are cut, or plashed. Ponds and drains are 

 made. Timber is felled, and tree-seeds are 

 sown. Copsewood is cut, and plantations are 

 thinned. In the garden various operations of 

 pruning, digging, sowing, etc. are going on. 



ANGLING. 



Almost every fresh water fish is in season 

 excepting chub, during the latter half of the 

 month, and trout, which continues so till April. 

 Roach and dace are deemed to be this month in 

 prime. They frequent rivers, and must be 

 sought for at this season in deep, shaded holes, 

 in clear waters with gravelly bottoms; dace, 

 particularly amongst weeds, and under the foam 

 caused by eddies. The best baits for them 

 now are paste, gentles, or larvae of beetles, got 

 by digging up the roots of plants. The flies of 

 this month are plain hackle, great dun, great 

 blue dun, and dark dun. 



