MARCH.] LETTUCES FOR HOGS. 



of weeds, than turning it clown by ploughing. The 



work also is done much more rapidly, which, at 



so busy a season, is an object of great consequence. 



LENTILS. 



This crop is not uncommon about Chesterfbrd 

 in Essex. They sow a bushel an acre on one 

 ploughing in the beginning or middle of the month. 

 They make hay of them, or seed them, for cutting 

 into chair* for trough-meat for sheep and horses, 

 and sow them on both heavy and dry soils. The 

 whole country is calcareous. Attention should be 

 paid, not to water horses soon after eating lentils, 

 for they are apt to hove. They are cultivated for 

 the same purpose in Oxfordshire. 



LETTUCES FOR HOGS. 



I first saw the sowing of lettuces for hogs prac- 

 tised in a pretty regular system, on the farm of a 

 very intelligent cultivator (not at all a whimsical 

 man) in Sussex. He had, every year, an acre or 

 two, which afforded a great quantity of very va- 

 luable food for his sows and pigs. It yields milk 

 amply, and all sorts of swine are very fond of it. 

 The economical farmer, who keeps many hogs, 

 should take care to have a succession of crops for 

 these animals, that his carts may not be forever 

 on the road for purchased grains, nor his granary 

 opened for corn oftener than is necessary. For 

 lettuce the land should have been ploughed before 

 the winter frosts, turning in by that earth 20 loads 

 of rich dung per acre, and making the lands of the 

 right breadth, to suit the drill-machine and horse - 



L 3 hoes, 



