02 THE FARMERS MANUAL. 



clover stand in the cock a day or two longer; open it 

 carefully when you are ready to cart, without spread- 

 ing ; let your bays be open under the bottom, for a 

 free circulation of air; fill several large -bags with 

 hay, set them erect upon the floor of your bays, mow 

 the clover around them with as little treading as pos- 

 sible 5 raise up the bags with the rise of your mow, 

 and when your mow is finished, remove the bags ; 

 these openings will serve as ventilators, and secure 

 your mows from heating. If you reserve your wheat 

 or rye straw for this purpose, and cover your clover 

 occasionally, as you mow it, with straw ; your straw 

 will not only prevent your mow from heating, but 

 imbibe the moisture of your clover, and become 

 valuable feed for your horses and cattle, and thus be- 

 come a double saving. One bushel of , salt sprinkled 

 upon your clover as you mow it, will preserve it against 

 heating, and doubly repay you in the value it will 

 give to your hay. When your clover is housed, you 

 may turn in the* sward the first or second year, and 

 plant potatoes for a wheat fallow, or feed lightly the 

 second growth ; but never mow it, if you intend to 

 cut it again the next year. The first and second years, 

 your crops will be good, the third will fail, and the clo- 

 ver will die, unless you dress it with manure that will 

 bring in other grasses. The death of your clover, 

 leaves your land enriched by the dfccay and putre- 

 faction of the roots, and thus, after the crops have re- 

 warded liberally your expense and labour, your land 

 has risen in the value of its tillage, and is better pre- 

 pared for the next rotine of crops than before. 



All farmers of celebrity are agreed, that the true 

 and first principles of good husbandry, consist in ma- 

 nuring, ploughing, and a proper rotine of crops. I 

 shall defer my remarks upon manuring until 1 come 

 to treat upon the subject of compost, and manures ge- 

 nerally, and confine my remarks in this number to the 

 article of clover and tillage. If it is your wish to 

 combine the improvement of your stock generally 



