MAY. 



this vale, is the following: three handfuls of com- 

 mon salt to three quarts of water, a quarter of an 

 ounce of salt-petre, and as much black pepper as 

 will lie upon a shilling, a small quantity of agri- 

 mony, a sprig of sweet-scented thyme, a handful of 

 sweet-briar, a handful of the red buds of hawthorn, 

 four heads of sage. Add the ingredients, and boil 

 the water a quarter of an hour. To the liquor, 

 when cold, put one veil. The rennet may be used 

 the next day." Marshall, Gloucester. 



PARE AND BURX. 



Paring and burning the turf, is in some places 

 begun so soon as March ; it holds all through May. 

 In the horning, many hands should be sot at work, 

 at once, that a dry time may be caught for it, in 

 case the season in general proves wet. One peculiar 

 circumstance attending the breaking up of grass- 

 lands, whether old ttirf or sainfoin lays, is the 

 bringing them in order for turnips with only 

 one ploughing ; and it is a general and very- 

 just observation, both in the north and west of 

 England, where this husbandry is most common, 

 that turnips scarcely ever are known to fail on burnt 

 lands: the fly, on such, is nearly unknown. Now, 

 any fanner must be sensible of the vast importance 

 of thus bringing turf-land, by only one ploughing, 

 to a turnip crop: much tillage is thus saved, as well 

 as a great expence ; and the turnips are generally 

 a crop that repays the expences of the operation 



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