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trenches close on each side of the wall, after it is built, and 

 throw the earth, thus ploughed up, against the wall. 



Where stom-s are very large, and cannot be removed 

 without breaking them, the best way is to split them to 

 pieces. For this purpose, drill two holes in opposite sides, 

 according to the grain of the stone ; then fill each hole with 

 two h*lf cylindrical pieces of iron, and between these drive 

 a long steel wedge. In this way large stones or rocks may 

 be split out into proper shapes for good building-stones, or 

 for other purposes. Building fires on large stones will also 

 render them liable to be broken to pieces, while they are 

 thus heated. 



By experiments accurately made, it is found, that fimll 

 stones on the surface of the ground are beneficial, in a small 

 degree, in increasing its products; but they are too trouble- 

 some, in good cultivation, to be desirable on account of all 

 the benefit to be derived from them. 



Where ground is full of small stones, they may be drove 

 <]r - > H so as to be out of the way of the sithe, by having a 

 rosier passed over the ground in. the Spring, when it is very 

 soft, as the stones are then easily pressed into it. 



STOCKING OR SHOCKING Let ten sheaves be dis- 

 posed in two rows, each leaning against the other; then 

 Ir.i two sheaves be laid on the top, so as that the but of one 

 lies under the but of the other, having the heads hanging 

 downwards. In this way, wheat or other grain will keep 

 very well. Another method is to make little stacks, of an 

 hundred sheaves or more in each. They are made with 

 the heads inmost and uppermost ; and, over the top of the 

 Y'hole, a large sheaf is tied close to the but-end, and the 

 other end spread all round the top of the stack, to preserve 

 it from the rains This is, no doubt, the best method for 

 saving the grain from the effects of long and heavy rains. 



STRAIN OR SPRAIN. Horses are liable to strains, 

 particularly in their shoulders. Anointing them with spirits 

 of turpentine, in the part injured, will help them for a 

 while ; but will not afford a permanent relief Washing the 

 shoulder, when that part is affected, with brine, as warm as 

 it can well be borne, will effect a cure in a few days. Do- 

 ing it twice a day, and leting the animal rest from labor, 

 will generally perform a cure in a few weeks, at farthest. 

 If these will not answer, let warm poultices be applied, of 

 bran, boiled in vinegar, with a sufficiency of hogslard to 

 prevent its growing hard; let this be repeated, if necessary, 

 until the cure is completed ; and then mind to keep that 

 part covered a while, so that it shall not be affected by 

 colds. 



