JANUARY. 53 



torn of the ridge-furrows. Th rough out the winter, 

 especially if it be a wet one, the great use of this 

 precaution will be found. 



CARTING CABBAGES. 



Cabbages will of course be planted with an eye 

 to the same circumstance : the ridges so arranged, 

 as l.o admit carts to move, as for turnips, in the 

 ridge-furrows only. In carting both turnips and 

 cabbages, attention should be paid to the men, for 

 preventing all movements across the ridges, that 

 they turn from the gateway along the border till 

 they come to the ridges whence the load is to be 

 taken. 



FELL ASH. 



If February should prove a forward month, ash 

 timber had better be felled in January than delayed 

 longer : this note upon a supposition that the far- 

 mer occupies his own land, and employs a wheel- 

 wright constantly, which I have found to be a 

 cheaper plan than employing others in the common 

 \\-i\\-. If elm abounds on the farm, this is the sea- 

 son to fell that also ; and the aquatic timbers like- 

 wise. 



WINTER EVENINGS. 



Some readers may smile at this title in a Calen- 

 dar of the business of a farm ; but if they do, it 

 will be for want of due consideration. In fact^ 

 there is no part of the day can be more profitably 



E 3 employed. 



