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fed hard with sheep, are very difficult to make 

 cheese from : while a few sheep among cows may, 

 by picking out the clover, be serviceable to the 



dai ry . ' ' Ma rah a II . 



PARE AND BURN. 



The men employed in this business should be 

 kept steadily at work throughout the whole of this 

 month : if heavy rains impede the drying and burn- 

 ing, let it be remembered, that the paring may pro- 

 bably go on the better for it, so that whatever the 

 weather maybe, this operation, which is of such 

 essential importance in many improvements, need 

 not stop. 



STATE OF WHEAT CROPS. 

 The young fanner will now be naturalfy led to 

 watch the progress of his wheat crops : no accu- 

 rate judgment can be formed till this month, which 

 will enable him to make various observations which 

 a man of any curiosity will not omit. It is re- 

 marked by a late writer, that wheat which has 

 carried a green and flourishing countenance through- 

 out the winter, often loses its verdure in the spring, 

 and assumes a yellow sickly aspect. In the spring 

 of the year 1780, the forward sown wheat was so 

 much affected by the cold weather in the months of 

 April and May (it having been one of the most 

 backward springs I ever remember), as to become 

 exceedingly yellow, and was interspersed through- 

 cut with innumerable patches of different tints, 



which 



