THE FARMER'S MANUAL. 



eial grasses and other green crops, as much live 

 stock may be supported and fattened upon their 

 produce, as if the whole farm were in pasture ; while 

 the other half, enriched by the large quantity of dung 

 produced by the consumption of these crops, will 

 furnish as much disposable produce, for supplying 

 the markets with the various sorts of grains, as if the 

 whole farm had been kept under tillage. Hence the 

 superior advantages and profit, derived from a con- 

 junction of stock and corn husbandry ; by such a 

 union, the grand system of husbandry can be more 

 extensively and substantially improved, than upon 

 any other plan hitherto discovered." Sinclair's Code. 



JULY. 



Indian-Corn and Haying. 



You doubtless have half hilled your Indian-corn, 

 and cut your clover in the month of June. Every 

 careful farmer will now dress his hills with ashes, or 

 plaster, to render his earing heavy and full, and 

 get through with his hilling as far as possible, before 

 his English mowing claims his attention : any inter- 

 ruption in time of haying, is both unsafe and perplex- 

 ing. Some farmers delay their hilling until haying, 

 to husband time, calculating to hill when the weather 

 is foul and unfit for haying ; this is the worst calcula- 

 tion possible. The damage to your corn by sue! 

 delay, is bad ; to hoe or hill when your land is heavy. 

 or wet, is bad ; it leaves your land tight, excludes 

 the free circulation of air to the roots of your corn, 

 and is a waste in the delay of hoeing, both in time 

 and strength ; all which are bad. Select, therefore, 

 the finest weather for your several hoeings ; your land 

 will plough easy, hoe easy, your weeds will wilt and 

 die in the sun, and vour corn will be refreshed with L 



