FEBRUARY. 



WOODS. 



This month, as well as the preceding, is" a good 

 season for felling underwood, in which work, and 

 the converting of the product to the best profit, 

 lies much judgment. When a farmer has taken a 

 farm that has a wood in it, he should consider well 

 which is the most advantageous use to put it to. 

 In some Countries hoop stuff pays best ; in some, 

 hop poles are, of all other articles, the most pro- 

 fitable; in others, faggot-wood of various sorts. In 

 gom< j situations, bushes, loose or tied in faggots, are 

 paiiirularly valuable. In others, nothing in 'a 

 v.o >d pays so well as hurdles. Whatever answers 

 btV, the 'farmer should apply his wood to, and 

 Subject his' management of it to such changes as 

 a variation in demand may' occasion. This may 

 appear superfluous advice to old farmers, but there 

 are many young ones that want reminding now anct 

 then of such circumstances. 



CARROTS. 



This crop is of vast importance to the farmers 

 ivho have spirit enough to cultivate it. It is com- 

 mon ' husbandry in some parts of this kingdom. 

 The soil proper for carrots being dry gravels, sands, 

 or loams, it may probably be practicable to plough 

 them this month. This tillage will not be neces- 

 sary, if the land bids fair to work fine in March. 

 Let me here remark further, that in case the land 

 is very mellow, and in order good enough for being 

 harrowed on this month's tillage, it should by no 



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