JUNE. -409 



PLOUGH IN GREEN CROPS. 

 Tins is a sort of manuring whicH has many ad- 

 vocates and some enemies, resulting probably from 

 their having drawn conclusions from trials on dif- 

 ferent soils and under different circumstances. The 

 probability of success is greater when the vegetable 

 is ploughed in at Midsummer than at Michaelmas, 

 as the warmth of season must considerably aid the 

 fermentation. Whatever the plant may be, whe- 

 ther rye, tares, or very early sown buck -wheat, 

 it ahould be ploughed down with a skim-coulter 

 plough, which is the only means of turning it so 

 completely in as to be quite concealed from the eye; 

 and this operation should take place at least three 

 weeks before sowing turnips ; when that seed 

 should be very lightly harrowed in. 



MOUNTAIN IMPROVEMENT. 

 The improver of moors and mountains should 

 take care to employ hands enough in summer for 

 executing all the works belonging to that season: 

 in such situations the winter is usually very long 

 and very severe ; few works can then go on except 

 quarrying for walls and lime, and digging drains, 

 and in some cases only the former; a good use 

 should therefore be made of all the summer months 

 for paring and burning, building, walling, &c. &c. 



HIRE HARVEST-MEN. 



At Whitsuntide it is usual for farmers to make 

 an agreement for their harvest : see the Calendar 



for 



