FARMING AND FOXHUNTING 



Deal with the surface weed first and then put in 

 your seed. 



Professor Wrightson, late of Downton College, 

 once said, "It is the first six months of the year 

 which give you the corn crop, and the second the 

 root crop." This observation of the Professor I 

 believe to be a very true one. But do not let me 

 mislead anyone by this statement. I am not sug- 

 gesting one must wait until June 2 1 before making 

 a start with the sowing — much depends upon what 

 you require the crop for. For cows to haul off 

 one must aim at a heavy crop and this objective 

 will not be attained by too late a sowing, but for 

 sheep feed one is very safe to delay until June is 

 well in, and not sow beyond mid-July or early August, 

 on a warm soil. 



Another feature of this late sowing of roots is 

 that your crop keeps sound and fresh late on into 

 the autumn. The late swede will resist a winter 

 frost far better when it is full of growing juices than 

 it will when old and tough. 



Haymaking 



By close observation throughout my life I have 

 come to the conclusion that the man who is a bad 

 haymaker is finally left wondering why it is that 

 he does not make the progress he thinks he is 

 entitled to. As a rule he usually starts too late, 

 and then makes a bulk of old stuff with neither 

 milk nor feeding value in it, with the result that he 

 gets a poor milk yield, in fact his flocks and herds 



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