1JJ4 MARCH, 



post returned. The time of poling depends on the 

 shooting of the plants. 



PICK STONES. 



In a dry season, an opportunity should be taken 

 this month, to stone pick the grass and clover fieldd 

 intended for mowing. In this work, no stones 

 are to be taken but such as would impede the 

 scythe. The pickers, who generally like this work, 

 will over-pick, if they are not attended to, and they 

 will propose to pick other fields which are not to be 

 mown ; but on no account is this to be permitted, 

 if the stones be not much wanted. It has been often 

 remarked, and is a known fact, that too much stone 

 picking has done a very sensible mischief, in many 

 cases where picked by authority of parliament for 

 turnpike roads. But Mr. Macro, of Suffolk, ascer- 

 takied it experimentally. " Having often thought 

 that picking the stones off my turnip lands did more 

 hurt than good, I tried an experiment last spring, 

 by gathering up all the stones of one square rod, 

 after the turnips were folded off, and laying them 

 equally over another square rod by the side of it, 

 then sowed them, with barley, and marked them 

 out, and, at harvest time, collected them sepa- 

 rately, as likewise another square rod by the side 

 of them, which had only the natural quantity of 

 stones. 



J>rod 



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