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advantage in it, that they would 

 not afterwards incline to lay it 

 aside. U is probable it might pre- 

 vent the winter killing of much 

 grain, an evil that is greatly com- 

 planied of. 



WATERING, applying water 

 to plants to nourish them. 



Vegetables that are newly trans- 

 planted, as they have their roots 

 more or less diminished, or other- 

 wi-.'^ injured, often need watering 

 till they have taken new root. But 

 this should be done with caution. 

 If a di) season follow the trans- 

 planting, le» them be watered if 

 they appt-ar to droop, only on 

 evenings, and in cloudy weather, 

 and with w.^ter that has been ex- 

 posed, one day at least, to the shin- 

 ing of the sun ; not with water di- 

 rectly from a well, or a cold spring, 

 as it will give a chill to the plants. 

 Only a small quantity should be 

 applied at once, that it may have 

 an effect similar to that of a re- 

 freshing rain. For water, applied 

 too plentifully, sometimes washes 

 away the finest of the mould from 

 the roots ; or makes little cavities 

 about them, which admit too much 

 air. 



In a dry season, whole gardens 

 sometimes need watering ; and in 

 doing it the above precautions are 

 to bo regarded. They are happy 

 who have a piece of standing wa- 

 ter in the r garden or a rivulet near 

 at hand, from whence the garden 

 may be watered without much la- 

 bour. 



WEATHER. The state or con- 

 dition of the atmosphere with re- 

 gard to heat, cold, wind, rain, frost, 

 snow, &c. 



Innumerable advantages would 

 arise to the husbandman from a 

 foreknowledge of the changes of 

 the weather ; and even from a fore- 

 knowledge of the general charac- 

 ters of the approaching seasons. la 

 the former case, he would be able 

 to order his business from day to 

 day in the best manner, and so 

 prevent much hurry, perplexity and 

 loss ; especially in the seasons of 

 hay making and harvesting ; in the 

 latter, he would be happily direct- 

 ed in his choice of crops, and the 

 best methods of cultivating them. 

 And as this knowledge is not to be 

 obtained, the ability to make very 

 probable conjectures is nextly to 

 be coveted, as it will be found to 

 answer very valuable purposes. 



Virgil, and other early writers on 

 husbandry, pointed out many rules 

 of prognosticating the changes of 

 weather in their own countries. 

 But these will not universally, and 

 pel haps not generally, apply in 

 other regions. Persons ought 

 therefore to be careful that they 

 do not lay too much stress upon 

 them. 



Journals of the weather, winds, 

 and state of the atmosphere, should 

 be made and keptni every climate 

 in this country ; from the compar- 

 ing of which for a course of years, 

 it is profitable that some valuable 

 prognostics might be formed, 

 which have not yet been thought 

 of. 



The observations made in one 

 climate, will not perfectly answer 

 for another, even in the same coun- 

 try. In some parts of the state of 

 Massachusetts, for instance, a south 

 wind in a summer morning forebodes 



