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stop this month : it is a very proper season for the 

 work, and should be pursued with spirit, while the 

 season admits it, on all soils : I say on all soils, be- 

 cause in winter, wet or heavy ones must not be 

 carted on. These manures, though expensive at 

 first, are cheap in the end ; for they last many 

 years. In all works of carting, attend particularly 

 to the employment of your team : use as few horses 

 as possible. For this purpose, the small three- 

 wheeled cart is well adapted : one horse is sufficient 

 for two of them : one loading while the other is 

 driving away, by means of the third wheel, which 

 supports the weight of the cart and load, instead of 

 the fill-horse in large carts : they do not hold more 

 than fifteen bushels ; such will do for winter-cart- 

 ing o.n grass-lands, without poaching. If the draft 

 is not distant, three or four men will thus be em- 

 ployed by one horse,, which is an excellence that 

 no other machine can boast. Now let any atten- 

 tive cultivator reflect on the importance of an odd 

 horse performing much of the carting of a farm,, 

 while the others are going regularly on with their 

 tillage or road-work. Whoever will consider this 

 comparison in the proper light, will be sensible that 

 it is an economical way of carrying on busiu- 



MADDER. 



In case the season in the spring proved so unfa- 

 vourable to planting madder, that the work was 

 delayed until the last week of May, or the first of 

 June, the fields so planted should now be horse or 

 hand-hoed, as most wanting. The best way is to 



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