388 JUNE. 



mer is that season, there are several reasons for ad- 

 mitting. 



If, on experience, it should be found by others as 

 it has often been by myself, that litter of all kinds is 

 converted in summer to better dung than common 

 winter keeping can effect, the vast importance of 

 raising amply various crops for soiling, acquires a 

 fresh interest in the farmer's system. He will be 

 sedulous to cover his fallows with tares, clover, and 

 chicory, and apply a breadth of his very best land 

 to lucern ; he will ever take care to have too much 

 rather than too little, as an increase of his hay- 

 stacks can in few cases prove any evil ; and as 

 these crops prepare for corn at the same time that 

 they furnish support for cattle, horses, and swine, 

 when dung is best made, they tend, in every way, 

 to keep a farm in heart. 



LONG AND SHORT DUNG. 

 Many experiments have been made, not only by 

 garden farmers in the vicinity of Wimbledon, but 

 fllso by Mr. Paterson, comparing long fresh dung 

 with such as is well mixed and rotten ; and the re- 

 sult has been very generally in favour of the long 

 dung. 



DAIRY. 



" I take it that oftentimes in very hot weather, the 

 milk in a cow's udder, much agitated by driving, 

 Or running about, is in a state not very far different 

 fron\tbat carried on in a churn, which frequently 



makes 



