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pasturage to any kind of farming stock, and the 

 water must be taken off for nearly a week, that 

 the land may become dry and firm before the heavy 

 cattle are admitted. It is proper, in the first week 

 of eating off the spring feed, if the season be cold 

 or rainy, to give the cattle a little hay in the even- 

 ing to intermix with their moist food. But the 

 grand application of the young meadow-grass is 

 for ewes and lambs, and attention should always be 

 paid to hurdling off the grass, and giving stripes 

 across the meadow, exactly in the way that turnips 

 are hurdled for sheep. The caution of Mr. Bos- 

 well, never to feed on these meadows any heavier 

 stock in spring, than sheep and calves, seems to 

 be judicious, but will, however, depend much on 

 soil, for, upon a sound gravel, a practice may be 

 admitted which would be mischievous on a peat 

 meadow. 



DESTROY MOLES. 



This is one of the principal months for destroy- 

 ing this species of vermin, as they run more now 

 and in April, than at any other time. Mole- 

 catchers who do not keep farms clear by an annual 

 contract, but are paid by the head, are too apt to 

 neglect their business when their attention is of 

 most consequence. 



MANURE GREEN WHEATS. 

 February, March, and April, are the months for 

 sowing top-dressings on the young wheats. There 



are 



