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trod out a great quantity of stones, in feeding 'o 

 turnips, to have them raked up clean, which I hav 

 known some farmers do, nor can the rake be use 

 without taking some of the tathe, or dung, wit 

 them." 



FEED NEW LAYS. 



Land laid clown last August, or the preceding 

 spring with corn, should not have had a hoof in 

 them through all the last autumn and winter. 

 They will now present to the eye a beautiful fleece 

 of young grass, of much value for sheep, and they 

 are to be well stocked and kept down at pre- 

 sent, and through all the following summer, by this 

 stock only. Nothing is more pernicious than 

 mowing a new lay, as directed by certain authors. 

 They may have succeeded in spite of such bad ma- 

 nagement, but never by it. 



SEED OATS. 



Mr. Walker, near Belvoir Castle, Lincolnshire, 

 sows eight bushels of oats per acre, and finds the 

 crop much better, and the sample more equal than 

 with less seed : the oats are less taily, no tillers to 

 give different degrees of ripeness, and the crop 

 ready to cut four or five days sooner than with 

 thinner sowing. Mr. Ducket is of the same opi- 

 nion, and holds no idea cheaper than that of re- 

 commending the drill husbandry as saving seed : 

 he drills five bushels of oats per acre. 



APRIL. 



