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after five, when the horse-keeper should again take 

 the teams. By this method a pair of horses, in a 

 veil-made plough, will, without any driver, plough 

 an acre and a quarter, or half, very easily ; and no 

 object is more important, than the ploughs doing 

 good da\s work in the spring of the year. The 

 consequence, especially of making the mo>t of d-y 

 weather in March, is extremely great. One acre 

 ploughed and sowed then, may be fairly worth two 

 that are left till the beginning of May. From long 

 observation of the value of dry seasons for tillage in 

 this month, must arise the old proverb of A peck 

 of March dust is worth a kings ransom. 



HORSES ON CARROTS. 



This is a month in which carrots are in full per- 

 fection; they have now evaporated much of their 

 moistuie, and easily bend in the hand, being as it 

 were withered. Then every ounce is nourishment, 

 and they are fully as hearty as oats; insomuch, that 

 horses that have had a month's carrots will refuse 

 oats. To provide this root in ample quantity, for 

 February, March, and April, is an object that ought 

 never to be omitted. 



WATER-FURROWING. 

 In all new sown or ploughed lands being wet, 

 soon as a field is finished, let the ploughs, 

 they leave it, strike the water-furrows, and sen<3 in 

 men directly with spades to scour them, that is, 

 throw out the moulds. In all lands sown with clover 



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