THE FARMER'S MANUAL. 



with the improvement of your tillage, sow with your 

 clover 4 or 5 quarts of herds-grass seed to the acre ; 

 dress it in the fall or spring with about 3 bushels of 

 plaster of Paris to the acre, if a light or gravelly soil, 

 or with 8 or 10 bushels of live ashes to the acre, sown 

 upon your grass, or 10 or 15 loads of good yard, stable, 

 compost, or hog manure, if a clay or moist soil. If 

 it is your wish to continue your field for mowing, 

 dress it again the 3d year as at the first, and so on 

 successively ; but even in this case, be careful to 

 avoid a second cutting until the 3d year, (and even 

 then, you will do well to omit it,) and feed lightly 

 in the fall ; a good coat of feed upon your mowing 

 grounds over the winter, is next to a good coat of 

 manure, and should be preserved as far as possible. 

 Let not a hoof enter your grass grounds in the spring, 

 particularly *sheep and horses ; the damage will be 

 greater than in June. Whenever you turn up your 

 grass grounds for tillage, be sure to plough as deep 

 as possible, this will not only give a good depth for 

 your corn, or potatoes, to extend their fibres, but will 

 lay your sward deep to rot, and thus give you a deep 

 rich mould that will not soon be exhausted by tillage, 

 and insure you more successful crops. The value 

 of clover, when cut and fed green in summer, or when 

 housed and fed in winter, together with the most ap- 

 proved method of feeding with it, either with or with- 

 out straw, I shall consider under the article Stock. 



Manures. 



The basis of good husbandry, are labour and ma- 

 nurje ; these rightly applied, will always insure good 

 crops. You have disposed of all your winter ma- 

 nures, from the farm-yard and hog-styes, undoubtedly s 

 to the best advantage ; the time has now come to at- 

 tend to your summer manures ; to dress your lands 

 in autumn. Let your hogs be enclosed in an open 



