MARCH. 



cabbages. The first to be planted, and the other 

 to be drilled, where they are to remain, in April. 

 The time of doing it, whether now, or in that 

 month, will depend on the pressure of other busi- 

 ness ; but the young farmer must remember that 

 the work is to be done. Long fresh dung from 

 the yards, will do for either purpose, probably bet- 

 ter than any other. We may suppose that the land 

 now lies in ridges of that size, whether of three or 

 of four feet breadth, on which the crop is to be put 

 in. The dung is to be laid in the furrows, from 25 

 to 35 cubical yards per acre. If very long and 

 strawy, 4O yards, and the ridges being reversed, it 

 lies ready to receive the seed. 



In this husbandry, if the ridges be four feet 

 wide, much attention should be paid to leaving 

 the furrows freely open, and as deep as possible, 

 c'CTrcted by a double mole-board plough with ex- 

 panding wings ; this is of great importance, and 

 especially if the dung be long. Many farmers are 

 apprehensive of burying dung, but it is a gross 

 error ; at whatever depth it is ploughed in, its ten- 

 dency is to rise into the atmosphere ; were it buried 

 six feet deep, the same effect would be the result ; 

 its gradual dissolution is produced by fermentation, 

 converting it into gaseous fluids which rise through 

 the superincumbent moles into the atmosphere. 



HOPS. 



This is the season to plant hop-cuttings, a branch 

 f agriculture which, if treated much in detail, would 



fill 



