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the ground would receive at least one-third of the benefit, 

 in regard to destroying the seeds of weeds, and sweetening 

 and fertilizing the soil, that it would receive by a complete 

 process of Summer-fallowing ? 



Yet little or nothing could be effected, in the same way> 

 in Greatbritain; for, before the same culture could be 

 attempted there, the season would be too far advanced. 



It may then, with truth, be said, that Summer-fallowings 

 may more readily be dispensed with in this Country, than 

 in that, by more frequently giving the ground a partial 

 sweetening, and cleansing, in the manner last mentioned : 

 But, at the same time, it will readily be seen, that nothing 

 short of a complete Summer-fallowing will, at any time, 

 effect the complete cleansing and melioration of the soil. 

 See further, PLOUGHING. 



FALSE QUARTER. A rift or chink in the hoof of a 

 Horse from top to bottom. The inner side of the hoof, 

 being the thinest, is most liable to it. When it becomes 

 troublesome to a Horse, Gibson directs that the cleft be 

 pared out to the quick; then annoint the hoof with a mix- 

 ture of tar, honey, and suet, melted together, and lay a 

 pledget, dipt in the same, along in the cleft. Then bind up 

 the hoof as tight as possible, by winding rope-yarn closely- 

 round it from top to bottom. The shoe should previously 

 be taken off. The wound should be opened and drest 

 every third or fourth day; and, to prevent any inconve- 

 niency from this, let the cleft be held together at the bottom 

 by a thin plate fastened on for the purpose. 



It is, however, very difficult, and often impossible, says 

 this Author, to effect a cure in an old or a diseased Horse. 



FARCY. A disease in Horses similar to the scurvy 

 among Men, and is caused by confining a Horse too long 

 to dry meal. It is known by small tumors appearing on 

 the head and other parts of the body. Turning the Horse 

 to fresh pasture will effect a cure, in the first stages of the 

 disorder; but where it has become more inveterate, by 

 long standing, Gibson directs, that the Horse be bled, mod- 

 erately purged, and then, that doses of antimony be given 

 him. 



FENCES. Poor fences are productive of incalculable 

 mischief to the Farmer. By these his crops are constantly 

 liable to be destroyed, and his cattle learn to become habit- 

 ually unruly. One unruly creature will learn others to be so; 

 and thus the Farmer, with his poor fences, finds his cattle, 

 instead of being profitable, to become productive of unceas- 

 ing losses, and, what follows of course, of unceasing vexation. 



