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Lose no time with your sickle ; cut down your grata, 

 if the kernel is formed into a consistence; the juices 

 in the stalk will afford more nutriment to the kernel in 

 the gavil, than when standing, and your crop will be 

 saved from ruin. This method is always safe, and 

 must never be omitted. When your straw is cured, 

 shock, stack, or house it, as before. One or two days, in 

 good weather, will cure your grain in this state ; but if 

 the weather proves foul, bind and stack, or shock, for 

 securit^ , and open your stacks in fair weather, until 

 they are fit to house. Every consideration must give 

 place to the saving of your crop. Ridge in with one 

 bout ridges, such stubble lands as you design to winter 

 fallow for spring crops. 



AUGUST. 



Your harvest is housed, your late potatoes are 

 planted, and your turnips are generally sown. Your 

 late haying, and your oats, now claim your particular 

 .Attention. Proceed with your late haying as with 

 your English and timothy; if you gather it in a care- 

 less and slovenly manner, and suffer it to be exposed 

 to tffe rains, as being of little value, and not worth a 

 careful expense, it will repay you in your own way, 

 and will become truly of little value ; but if you col- 

 lect and house it with proper attention, it will be 

 J.he more valuable, arid will repay you with interest. 

 Be sure to finish before the 20th of August. 



Watch your oats, as you have done your English 

 harvest; cut them when the straw is partially green, 

 and as soon as the oat has formed into a consistence. 

 The grain will be better, the straw more valuable for 

 feeding, and a handsome saving in thd shelling ; but 

 when you house them, use a little more caution than 

 with your grain, in ventilating your mows ; the oats will 

 pack closer, and be in more danger of healing, thru* 

 your grain. 



