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cellently with turnips, is cut chaff: tins makes very 

 good dry meat for sheep that are fatting on turnips 

 or cabUagcs. 



THE TEAMS. 



This is an idle month for the teams in many farms; 

 but should not be so with good husbandmen : for, as 

 I have often remarked, they must be constantly well 

 fed, and employed. There are many works that may 

 be executed in this month after ploughing is finished: 

 on light dry soils, the marie, chalk, or clay carts 

 should not stop : they may work from the first day 

 to the last. In wetter soils, you may cart any sort of 

 manure on to grass lands, provided you use small 

 carts. 



DRAINING. 



In this month you may begin the work of hollow- 

 draining, which, on wet lands, is the sine qua non of 

 husbandry. It is .in vain to think of farming them 

 to any profit, without this improvement. Manuring 

 Before this is done, is but expending money for 5 per 

 cent, advantage, where 50 ought to be the return. 

 Lay your land dry before you attempt other improve- 

 ments : the first step is cutting deep and large ditches 

 around the wet fields ; then you gain a requisite fall 

 to take the water clean away from the drains. 



If the soil is very wet, it will be necessary to cut 

 ;he drains near each other; for instance, about a 

 perch, a perch and a half, or two perches asunder ; 

 )y which means it will be laid in most soils in dry and 

 wholesome order. Fill them with whatever materials 

 ou can get the easiest, bush-faggots, stones, straw., 

 &c. &c. No improvement in agriculture is greater 



L 1 3 than 



