JULY.] SHUT UP ROUEN". 



a proper succession of those crops which have 

 been often mentioned for this use. 



WAKI 1 !. 



As this capital improvement, where yet known, 

 goes on only in summer, the firmer should of course 

 keep his works active every tide, and never lose 

 one through ncgledt, or from having his sluices, Sec. 

 out of order. 



MANURING NEW LAYS. 



This part of the management will not be found 

 essential if the land be laid down in th^ courses 

 prescribed ; it however will at all times be found 

 very beneficial. The best time for it is in August 

 or September, if done the first year, being then a 

 year old, when a moderate dressing will much pro- 

 mote the thickening of the herbage. But upon 

 soils rather unfavourable to grass, on which the 

 success is at all doubtful, I should prefer (if it can 

 be done but once) to delay it to the period when 

 new lays are apt to fall oft", that is in August of the 

 third year, if fed ; but if mown, immediately after 

 clearing off the hay, which is the best time of all 

 others for manuring grass-land. 



Top-dressings of soot, sifted ashes, malt-dust, 

 and other bodies which will wash in the first heavy 

 rain, should be sown the end of February or begin- 

 ning of March. 



SHUT UP ROUEN. 



There is scarcely a more important object in the 



range of common farming management, than that of 



converting rouen after-grass, after-math, whatever 



E e 4 it 



