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MAY. 



FARM- YARD. 



ABOUT the twelfth of this month, the farmer 

 may calculate that he will have a sufficient bite of 

 grasses to leave off foddering entirely, and before 

 that, he should not think of it ; for if cattle are 

 turned into grass not sufficiently advanced in 

 growth, they will require such a number of acres, 

 that his mowing ground will be greatly curtailed. 

 As soon as the yards are cleared, if he is in the 

 mixing system, the dung in them must be turned 

 over, and mixed carefully with the stuff beneath, 

 whether it be chalk, marl, turf, ditch-earth, or 

 whatever sort. For this purpose, he must set many 

 hands to work, so^as to get it done as expeditiously 

 as may be ; because it should lay a little after turn- 

 ing, before it is carried on to the land. It. thereby 

 undergoes a fresh fermentation, and becomes more 

 rotten. The method in which the men should do 

 this work is, to begin and throw the dung up against 

 a wall, or into some vacant space, so as to have the 

 command of a trench to work in : they should 

 always keep this trench three or four feet wide : 

 then they draw down with dung-cromes the dung, 

 and, breaking it to pieces with a fork, throw it up 

 on the part already mixed, in a spreading manner, 

 so as to cover all the chalk or earth. In this man- 

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