DEC.] THE LABORATORY. 



hogs, which is their dung. See that all the sows with 

 pigs are well littered, so as always to he peri( 

 clean, with bright, healthy looking skins. Also . 

 fat hogs should he constantly littered up tu their 

 bellies. If they are not kept perfectly clean, you 

 may depend on losing money, by not milking so much 

 dung as might be. 



FENCES. 



Keep the hedgers and ditchers close to work all 

 this month, so that they may be ready for other 

 work in the spring. The three first winters of the 

 lease should get the fences into good order ; after- 

 wards divide them into twelve parts, and do one 

 every year, which will bring the whole to regular 

 cuttings. 



DIG MANURES. 



Upon light and very dry soils it will be proper to 

 keep the marie, chalk, or clay -carts at work : indeed 

 they should never stop ; for, when a man hires such 

 $oils for improvement, the sooner they receive the 

 manure, the greater will be his profit : for in some 

 countries, landlords, after the first lease, either raise 

 the rents considerably, or turn the tenants out. It is 

 therefore highly incumbent on them to regain their 

 cxpence with profit, within the term of the first lease ; 

 and that can only be done by marling very quickly at 

 first. 



MANURE HOPS. 



Hops are by many planters manured in this month, 

 if the season be favourable. 



THP; LABORATORY. 



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