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who has great tracts of land to improve, should be 

 careful that his kilns continue working throughout 

 the month. 



CART DUNG. 



The only crops for which dung from yards and 

 composts should now be carted, are potatoes and 

 cabbages. The first to be planted, and the other 

 to be drilled, where they are to remain, in April. 

 The time of doing it, whether now, or in that 

 month, will depend on the pressure of other busi- 

 ness ; but the young farmer must remember that 

 the work is to be done. Long fresh dung, from 

 the yards, will do for either purpose, probably bet- 

 ter than any other. We mav suppose that the 

 land now lies in ridges of that size, whether of 

 three or of four feet breadth, on which the crop is 

 to be put in. The dung is to be laid in the fur- 

 rows, from 25 to 35 cubical yards per acre. If 

 very long and strawy, 40 yards, and the ridges be- 

 ing reversed, it lies ready to receive the seed. 



HOPS. 



This is the season to plant hop-cuttings, a branch 

 of agriculture which, if treated much in detail, would 

 fill such a volume as this work forms. I shall, in 

 the seasons of the respective operations, remind the 

 farmer of the work that should be in his recollec- 

 tion. No beginner in husbandry would introduce 

 so operose an article of culture from any book. He v 

 would iix, for some time, in a hop district, to make 

 himself acquainted with it, and procure an able, 

 sensible workman, long habituated to it, to assist 



him 



