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396 MOUNTAIN IMPROVEMENT. [.JUNE*. 



there silt, yet no attempts that I have heard of 

 have been made to warp artificially there. 



Should any proprietor into whose hands this Ca- 

 lendar may fall, or even any farmer, living near a 

 muddy river, consider well the position of his 

 ground, and try the amount of the subsidence of 

 the water in a cylindrical glass jar, for a treasure 

 may be near him without his knowing any thing of 

 the matter. 



PLOUGH IN GREEN CROPS. 

 This is a sort of manuring which has many ad- 

 vocates and some enemies, resulting probably from 

 their having drawn conclusions from trials on dif- 

 ferent soils and under different circumstances. The 

 probability of success is greater when the vegetable 

 is ploughed in at Midsummer than at Michaelmas, 

 as the warmth of season must considerably aid the 

 fermentation. Whatever the plant may be, whe- 

 ther rye, tares, or very early sown buck-wheat, 

 it should be ploughed down with a skim-coulter 

 plough, which is the only means of turning it so 

 completely in as to be quite concealed from the eye; 

 and this operation should take place at least three 

 weeks before sowing turnips ; when that seed 

 should be very lightly harrowed in. 



MOUNTAIN IMPROVEMENT. 

 The improver of moors and mountains should 

 take care to employ hands enough in summer for 

 executing all the works belonging to that season : 

 in such situations the winter is usually very long 

 and very severe ; few works can then go on except 



quarrying 



