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MAY. 



I 'ARM -YARD. 



ABOUT the twelfth of this month the farmer 

 may calculate that he will have a sufficient bite of 

 grasses to leave off foddering entirely, and before 

 that, he should not think of it ; for, if cattle are 

 turned into grass not sufficiently advanced in 

 growth, they will require such a number of acres, 

 that his mowing ground will be greatly curtailed. 

 As soon as the yards are cleared, if he is in the 

 mixing system, the dung in them must be turned 

 over, and mixed carefully with the stuff beneath, 

 whether it be chalk, marie, turf, ditch-earth, or 

 whatever sort. For this purpose, he must set 

 many hands to work, so as to get it done as ex- 

 peditiously as may be ; because it should lay a 

 little after turning before it is carried on to the 

 land. It thereby undergoes a fresh fermentation, 

 and becomes more rotten. The method in which 

 the men should do this work is, to begin and throw 

 the dung up against a wall, or into some vacant 

 space, so as to have the command of a trench to 

 work in : they should always keep this trench three 

 or four feet wide : then they draw down with dung- 

 cromes the dung, and, breaking it to pieces with a 

 fork, throw it up on the part already mixed, in a 

 spreading manner, so as to cover all the chalk or 



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