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done in fnmmer, the beds fliould be duly 

 watered, and the plants, when winter 

 comes on, not being io large and hardy as 

 thofe fown in fpring, fhould be defended 

 againft froft with ftraw or fome other co- 

 vering, which fliould not lie too clofe for 

 fear of fuffocating them, and in mild 

 weather fliould be taken of. 



The mulberries may alfo be Town as 

 they ripen, by firfl: fqueezing out their 

 juice, and then mixing the pulp with fo 

 much fand as may ferve to feparate the 

 grains ; after which fow it upon a bed, 

 and fift mould over it, as dire6led in the 

 firft method of this chapter. 



If the feed which is fown in fummer 

 were made to pafs in digeilion through 

 the flomach of animals, it would greatly 

 haflen its fpringing; by which means, 

 though fown late, it would not be much 

 inferior in growth to the crop fown in 

 fpring. This is true alfo in all feeds 

 which are covered with fliells or flones, 

 many of which ftay often two feafons in 

 ground before they fpring : poultry mufl: 

 not be ufed, for their flomach grinds the 

 feed J but dogs and other animals might 

 be made to eat great quantities of the ber- 

 ries 



