SIIEKP. 



take better with buck-wheat than with any other 

 crop, but April is not the best time tor this plant. 

 Should it prove blind, as the farmers eall it, that is, 

 blighted and abortive, from frosts, the crop may be 

 mown for hay or for soiling. Seeds succeed, how- 

 over, very well with barley or oats ; and the chief 

 caution is, to prepare the land in such a manner as 

 to render it perfectly clean. Two successive crops 

 of turnips are the most effective way of securing 

 this degree of cleanness. In the Calendar for Au- 

 gust, this point will be further considered, and the 

 proper seeds to be sown specified. 



SHEEP. 



This is the month that tries the farmer more than 

 any other in the year. In the whole range of 

 husbandry, there is no point that puzzles the far- 

 mers more, than providing for their flocks through 

 March, April, and the first week of May. It proves 

 the good husbandman as much as any other article 

 in the most extended farm. The common ma- 

 nagement is to depend on turnips and hay ; and, 

 when the former are done, to turn them into a 

 piece of rye sown on purpose, or into the crops of 

 wheat, to feed them off. These resources not 

 being proportioned to the want, they let them run 

 over the clover and pastures of the farm ; by which 

 means the crops of hay, and pastures for large cat - 

 tie, are greatly damaged. Bad as such a system of 

 management undoubtedly is, yet it is too often to 

 be met with, and the bad consequences arc felt so 

 strongly, that the number of sheep on such farms, 



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