'ULL HEMP. 



height ; bran, pollard., barley, buck -wheat, or 

 pease ground into meal, and small quantities mixed 

 in it. 



Lettuces now come into use, and are of excel- 

 lent service to the sows and pigs ; and may be 

 deemed necessary if the dairy is small ; and in every 

 event to tend to saving corn. He who keeps many 

 swine cannot be too attentive to providing such ar- 

 ticles of food as shall save corn feeding, flogs are 

 reckoned, when kept in great numbers,, an unpro- 

 fitable stock ; but it is merely for want of making 

 a due provision of crops for them ; a few acres of 

 each sort will carry a great herd of swine : but let 

 no gap occur between the finishing one crop and 

 beginning another. 



CARROTS. 



About the latter end of this month the carrot 

 crop should be examined. It will require a slight 

 hoeing, not an expensive one ; but just to cut up 

 the few weeds that may be supposed to have arisen 

 since the last hoeing. If the former hoeings 

 have been well performed, only a hand-\veedii 

 will do. 



PULL HEMP. 

 The time of pulling is about the beginning of Au- 

 gust, or, more properly speaking, 13 weeks from the 

 time of sowing : the leaves turning yellow and the 

 stalks white, are signs of its maturity ; the male 

 and female hemp are pulled together : indeed, when 

 the crop is thick, it is impossible to separate them. 

 The expence of pulling is generally estimated at 



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