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ing them out while sheaves are there, merely for 



an opportunity of turning hogs and other cattle in, 



it is double dealing, and a meanness unpardonable. 



FARM-YARD. 



At the leisure time of harvest, such as the wet 

 days, when the team cannot carry corn, and while 

 all the harvest men are employed in reaping and 

 mowing, if the works of tillage do not require at- 

 tendance, let the horses and oxen be kept to earth- 

 cart, to form the bottom layer in the farm -yard, 

 carrying marie, chalk, turf, ditch-earth, or pond- 

 mud : the quantity in proportion to that of the 

 dung which you expect will be raised. 

 TURNIPS. 



The second hand-hoeing of the broad-cast tur- 

 nip crops must be given some time this month, nor 

 should it ever be omitted on account of works of 

 harvest. In counties, where turnip-hoeing is a 

 common business, there is no difficulty in this, as 

 men enough are always to be had. In some places, 

 many of them make it their business to hoe all har- 

 vest through, earning more at it than by other 

 field-work. But in countries where hoers are scarce, 



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a farmer should always consider his turnip crops 

 when he agrees with his harvest-men, and hire a 

 sufficiency to set them to hoeing as regularly, when 

 the turnips want it, as to reaping when the wheat 

 is ready. 



Look welt to your drilled crops : both the horse 

 and hand-hoeings must be given whenever weeds 

 arise; or the land seems to be growing adhesive. 



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