THE FARMER'S MANUAL* 



Continue to watch your vines, and destroy worms, 

 bugs, &c. Continue to nurse your plants with the 

 hoe in the morning ; this must not be omitted, until 

 the frosts and snows come. Your garden should be 

 as free from weeds as your drawing room. Continue 

 to sow ruta baga, turnips, &c. Continue to clip 

 your strawberries. 



AUGUST. 



Continue to transplant late cabbages, broccoli, 

 ruta baga, celery, &c. Continue to gather seeds 

 as they ripen, and dry them carefully ; see to such 

 seed-peas as were not gathered last month, and plant 

 a new crop for autumn. Continue to pull late on- 

 ions. Continue your hoeing in the morning when 

 the dew is on. Let me repeat it, this is the best 

 way of watering and manuring, unless it becomes 

 very dry, a little water may then become necessary, 

 early in the morning, or at evening, upon a dry soil. 

 Continue to earth up your celery, and nurse such 

 potatoes as are not lit to dig. Dig such as are ripe, 

 or hare dead vines. Begin to sow turnips for win- 

 ter's use, and transplant your ruta baga on to your 

 early pea and potatoe ground, in rows 4 feet asunder, 

 as before directed. In digging your ground, leave 

 an open trench at each 4 feet distance ; manure in 

 these trenches plentifully, with rich manure ; cover 

 it with earth, and set your roots over the manure, 

 when the earth is fresh dug; keep your plants clean 

 with the hoe. 



SEPTEMBER. 



Continue to earth up your celery ; gather your 

 !ate seeds, and dry them carefully ; sow onions to 



