FEB.] BORDERS. 



but the greatest crops I have known, have been 

 from planting every flag. 



QUANTITY OF SEED PEASE. 



From two to two and a half bushels an acre is 

 the usual quantity, in planting every flag. If they 

 are drilled at greater distances, 6 or 7 pecks will do. 

 Some have trusted to one bushel per acre, but that 

 quantity is too small. 



BORDERS. 



This is a proper season for bringing the borders 

 of the inclosures into good order. They are gene- 

 rally found to be high, irregular ridges of land, 

 from earth thrown out of ditches, and not carted 

 away, and from the turning of the ploughs and 

 harrows. They are often over-run with bushes and 

 wood, and much land is thereby lost. The best 

 method to be used with them, is first to cut all the 

 wood, and make it into faggots, and then to grub 

 up all the roots, and make them into stacks, for 

 which work labourers are generally paid by the piece. 

 It is proper to agree with them for raising the earth 

 into a high ridge, in the middle of the border. In 

 most countries, this will be done for 6s. to lOs. a stack, 

 of the roots 1 6 feet long, 3 high, and 3 broad ; but in 

 others it may cost more. The earth then lies ready, 

 and without any obstruction, for carting away, either 

 to the field, to the farm-yard to make a compost, or 

 for dung to be brought to it. But, in case one spit 

 deep is not sufficient to make the border lower than 

 the surface of the field, which it should always be, or, 

 -at the least, on a level with it, if it is grass land : 



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