1Q2 LETTUCES FOR HOGS. [APRIL. 



all the seed-weeds in the ground, and brings no 

 disagreeable necessity from bad weather in March 

 or April, to sow barley, &c. so late as to hazard 

 the crop. It is as valuable as barley. Where it is 

 known, it sells at the same price, and, for fatting 

 hogs and poultry, it equals it. It is, further, the 

 best of all crops for sowing grass-seeds with, giving 

 them the same shelter as barley or oats, without 

 robbing. 



BEANS FOR EATING GREEN. 



If Windsor -beans are cultivated with this inten- 

 tion, a portion of land should now be planted with 

 them. 



LETTUCES FOR HOGS. 



If the stock of swine be large, it is proper to 

 drill half an acre or an acre of lettuce this month. 

 The land should have been well manured and 

 ploughed before the Christmas frosts, into stitches 

 of the size that suits the drill-machine. It should 

 also have been scuffled in February, and again in 

 March, and well harrowed ; and this repeated be- 

 fore drilling. The rows should be equi-distant, 

 one foot asunder. 



The crop which was drilled in March (a suc- 

 cession being essentially necessary) should now be 

 thinned in the rows, by hand, to about nine or ten 

 inches asunder. If this necessary attention be nc- 

 . d, the plants draw themselves up weak and 

 poor, and will not recover it. Women do this 

 business as well as men. When about six inches 

 high, they should be horse-hoed with a scarifier 



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