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sion, after you have turned up and planted with po- 

 tatoes such rich swards as you design for wheat til- 

 lage in autumn, or for spring and summer tillage 

 the next season ; (be sure to accomplish this by the 

 middle of July, if possible.) 



When your potatoes are planted, and your harvest 

 is cut and housed, enter with spirit upon your late 

 haying ; let nothing interrupt your progress ; if the 

 weather is foul, but not rainy, continue to mow ; when 

 the sun appears, your swaths will be ready for turn- 

 ing, and in this way, your haying will progress rapid- 

 ly ; unless you are slovenly, by putting off the evil 

 day, and prophesying smooth things, and leave your 

 hay in the winrow, or spread about your fields, until 

 the thundergusts and storms overtake you ; your bu- 

 siness is then obstructed and thrown into confusion, 

 your expenses increased, and your hay ruined. These 

 evils, a careful farmer always avoids, by keeping his 

 hay always under his control, very exiraordinaries ex- 

 eepted, and thus his hay is good and commands the first 

 price in market ; his barns are sweet, his expenses 

 are light, and his purse is heavy. 



As soon as your harvesting is through, plough in 

 such parts of your richest stubble fields as yfiu in- 

 tend for turnips ; dress your turnip ground with plas- 

 ter, live, or leached ashes, or well rotted manure 

 from your stercorary, and sow, and harrow, or bush 

 in, one pound of seed to the acre. This-process, will 

 insure you a good crop, and guard your soil against 

 the bad t effects of this exhausting root. If you can 

 take advantage of feeding off your turnip crop with 

 sheep, by hurdles, upon the field, you cannot raise 

 too many ; the feeding will enrich your soil and your 

 flock ; but if your calculation is to pull for market, 

 you cannot raise too few; the profits upon the crop 

 will not repay the expense of tillage and damage to 

 your land. 



You have doubtless given your buck-wheat lands 

 one fallow ploughing in June ; cross-plough and sow 



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