JUNE.] BURN DRY WEEDS FOR MANURE. 



quarrying for walls and lime, and digging drains, 

 and in some cases only the former ; a good use 

 should therefore be made of all the summer months 

 for paring and burning, building, walling, &c. &c. 

 HIRE HARVEST MEN. 



At Whitsuntide it is usual for farmers to make an 

 agreement for their harvest : see the Calendar for 

 August. But the young cultivator should now have 

 it in his mind. 



BURN DRY WEEDS FOR MANURE. 



Our young farmer may perhaps want to be re- 

 minded, that spreading any sort of dry vegetable 

 substance on the land, and setting fire to it pre- 

 viously to harrowing in, or drilling turnip-seed, is 

 one of the most powerful manures that can be 

 used. There arc situations where fern from wastes, 

 warrens, &c. may be collected in almost any quan- 

 tity : if he has it in his power to preserve more 

 than he wants for littering, he should save it care- 

 fully for this use. In the fens of Cambridge and 

 Lincoln, it has been long a custom to burn oat 

 and other stubbles (of reaped crops), and the 

 effect resulting from it was probably the origin of 

 a practice which I first heard of in the latter 

 county ; that of burning straw for this purpose. 



The most singular practice which I ever met 

 with in manuring, subsists on the Wolds : it is 

 that of spreading dry straw on the land, and burn- 

 ing it. At Lord Yarborough's I first heard of this 

 custom. His Lordship's tenant, Mr. Richardson, 



a very 



