FEBRUARY. 3 



PLANT OSIERS. 



It is now a proper time to plant osiers anrf other 

 sorts of willows. No part of the farmer's business 

 pays better than such plantations, and especially 

 if he has any low, spungy, boggy bottoms near a 

 stream. The land should be formed by spade- 

 work into beds six, eight, or ten feet broad, by 

 narrow ditches ; and if there is a power of keep- 

 ing water in these cuts at pleasure by a sluice, it is 

 in some seasons very advantageous to do so. The 

 late Mr. Forby, of Norfolk, knew the value of 

 these plantations well, for various purposes. Osiers 

 planted in small spots, ami along some of his 

 hedges, supplied him with hurdle-stuff enough to 

 make many dozens every \c;ir. so that he supplied 

 himself entirely with that article, as well as with a 

 profusion of all M>rts of baskets, especially one kind 

 that he used for moving cabbage-plants, for which 

 purpose they were much better than tumbling the 

 plants loose in a cart. The common osier he cut 

 for this purpose at three years, and that with yel- 

 low bark at four. 



TARES. 



This is a proper season for sowing spring tares, 

 called in some places, vetches, fetches, thetches, &c. 

 The land I suppose stirred in autumn. The first 

 season in this month that is dry enough, should be 

 chosen for hamming in three bushels an acre of 

 seed. I suppose them designed for making hay 



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