APRIL.] POULTRY. 



107 wether sheep one week, -493 



8 cows, do. i s 



4 colts, do. - - o 16 



6 13 2 

 5 



For five weeks, 33 5 1O 



Three colts added for three weeks, 1 16 



SJ35 1 1O 

 Per acre, 4/8 



The hay crop was, as usual, about 15 tons, 



and was five weeks in growing. 



. 35 i 10 



15 tons, suppose 50s. - - 37 10 O 



After-grass 15s. - (j O 



8J?8 11 10 

 Total per acre, . g 16 5 



" The 4l. 7s. Sd. was made at a time when 

 other grass-land is in a dormant state, or exhibits 

 but feeble symptoms of vegetation. But the reader 

 will perhaps see the advantages of this art in a still 

 stronger light, when he is told that this meadow, 

 which is now in the occupation of a miller, was a 

 few years ago in the hands of a farmer, who, being 

 at variance with the miller, was entirely deprived of 

 the use of the water for a whole winter, which un- 

 fortunately was succeeded by a very dry spring and 

 summer ; of course the spring feed was lost ; and 

 the whole hay crop of eight acres was only three 



tons." 



POULTRY. 



This is a very busy month with the poultry-maid. 

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