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ploughing in the beginning or middle of the month. 

 They make hay of them, or seed them, for cutting 

 into chaff for trough-meat for sheep and horses, 

 and sow them on both heavy and dry soils. The 

 whole country is calcareous. Attention should be 

 paid, not to water horses soon after eating lentils, 

 for they are apt to hove. They are cultivated for 

 the same purpose in Oxfordshire. 



LETTUCES FOR HOGS. 



I first saw the sowing of lettuces for hogs prnc^ 

 tiscd in a pretty regular system, on the farm of a 

 very intelligent cultivator (not at all a whimsical 

 m;m) in Sussex. He had, every year, an acre or 

 two, which afforded a great quantity of very va- 

 luable food for hU sow> and pigs. It yields milk 

 amply, and all sorts of swine are very fond of it. 

 economical farmer, who keeps many hogs, 

 should take care to have a succession of crops for 

 these anirftels, that his carts may not be for ever 

 on the road for purchased grains, nor his granary 

 opened for corn oftener than is necessary. Por 

 lettuce, the land should have been ploughed before 

 the winter frosts, turning in by that earth '2O loads 

 of rich dung per acre, and making the lands of the 

 right breadth, to suit the drill -machine and horse- 

 hoes, so that in this month nothing more may be 

 necessary than to scarify the land, and to drill the 

 seed at one foot equi- distant, at the rate of four 

 jjonnd of seed per acre. If half an acre be tried, 



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