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should go out again, and work till half an hour 

 after five, when the horse-keeper should again take 

 the teams. By this method a pair of horses, in a 

 well-made plough, will, without any driver, plongl 

 an acre and a quarter, or half, very easily ; and n 

 object is more important, than the ploughs doin 

 good days work in the spring of the year. The 

 consequence especially, of making the most of dry 

 weather in March, is extremely great. One acre 

 ploughed and sowed then may be fairly worth two 

 that are left till the beginning of May. From long 

 observation of the value of dry seasons for tillage 

 in this month, must arise the old proverb of A 

 peck of March dust is ivorth a kinsfs ransom. 



HORSES ON CARROTS. 



This is a month in which carrots are in full per- 

 fection ; they have now evaporated much of their 

 moisture, and easily bend in the hand, being as it 

 were withered. Then every ounce is nourishment, 

 and they are fully as hearty as oats ; insomuch, that 

 horses that have had a month's carrots will refuse 

 oats. To provide this root in ample quantity, 

 Februarv, March, and April, is an object that 

 ought never to be omitted. 



U'ATKIM'tUl ROWING. 



In all new sown or ploughed lands, as soon as n 



field is finished, lei the- plough leave: 



it, strike- the \\ater-furruws, and send in men di- 



ly with sp;>< ower them, that is, throw 



nut the molds. In all hinds, sown with clover or 



imong the corn, these furrows should be 



dug 



