DEC.] SHEEP. 5'2J 



A threshing machine is an object of such import- 

 ance to every arable farmer, that no intelligent one 

 will be without it. 



FARM -YARD. 



Attend, without ceasing, to the littering of the yards, 

 stalls, stables, cow-houses, hog-sties, &c. With a 

 little management, all the urine might be preserved : 

 the drains that carry off the overflowings of the yard, 

 should lead to a small well, with a pump fixed in it : 

 this pump should have a light trough, turning on a 

 pivot, to receive the liquid, and a heap of turf or 

 marie be kept within reach of the trough : it should 

 convey the liquid over the whole, . which, being 

 carted on to the land, would prove an excellent ma- 

 nure. 



PLOUGH UP LAYS. 



It is by this time wet enough to begin to break up 

 grass-lands, a work that should not be done while 

 the land is dry : for it will not then turn up in clean, 

 well -cut furrows. Ploughing grass lands is a very 

 good piece of husbandry, when they arc worn out and 

 over-run with moss and other rubbish, or hide-bound. 

 To keep land under such unprofitable turf is bad 

 management : it should, by all means, be broken up, 

 and kept in a course of tillage for three or four years,, 

 and then laid down again ; by which conduct four 

 times the profit will arise, that could be gained from 

 keeping it in lay. 



SHEEP. 



This month your forward ewes may be expedted to 

 lamb, when you should be attentive to keep them 

 much better than they have been in common through 



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