THE FARMER'S MANUAL. 



season ; also, 400 bushels of corn. You also see, at 

 the same time, more than two thousand bushels of 

 potatoes. These, when boiled, produced the pork ; 

 this again, produced the manure, which in its turn, 

 will produce corn again, and, at the same time, raise 

 the productive value of the land; and thus you see 

 how my former remarks (under the articles, Manure 

 and Stock) are verified. The size of this farm, also, 

 shows how great wealth, with a little expense, can 

 be drawn from a small farm, with proper manage- 

 ment. The profits and the reputation, are worthy 

 of the first attention. 



Cut your cions for grafting, from such fruit as you 

 wish to propagate ; be sure to select from the ends 

 of the most thrifty, and best bearing limbs, upon the 

 most thrifty, and best bearing trees, and of the last 

 year's growth only, excepting so much of the growth 

 of the preceding year, as may be sufficient to fix in 

 the earth to preserve them moist ; let this be done by 

 tying in separate bunches, the several kinds, with 

 labels, and fix the bunches in the ground, in some 

 dry part of your cellar, where they will stand secure 

 until wanted for use. 



If the weather is warm at the close of this month, 

 commence the pruning of your orchards and fruit- 

 trees, generally. Cut oft" all the old dead limbs from 

 your old trees ; but preserve the young shoots ; 

 they will come forward and bear, when the standing 

 parts of your trees are dead. When you trim your 

 young trees, cut oft' such limbs as incline to droop, 

 are defective, or intersect each other ; -a little atten- 

 tion in pruning your fruit-trees, will carry them up in 

 a handsome, regular shape, and both improve the 

 quantity and quality of your fruit and your tillage un- 

 derneath. To effect these two objects, it will be- 

 come an object of your attention to accompany your 

 trimmer, and both watch and direct his trimming; a 

 person on the ground can generally judge better than 

 one upon the tree. I need not repeat, that your orchard? 



