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JULY. 



FARM-YARD. 



ALL, or much of the compost in the yard 

 being carted on to the land, you may now, if you 

 have leisure, begin to cart in the layer of turf* 

 ditch-earth, chalk, marl, clay, or peat, upon which 

 you are to fodder. There is no necessity of per- 

 forming this work in July ; but, as it may probably 

 prove a leisure time for the teams, it is mentioned 

 as a business that should be in hand, as a preven- 

 tion for their standing still. It should be executing 

 from this time till the end of September. As the 

 importance of it is very great, being the source of 

 the most material improvements on a farm, it 

 should be resolved on early. 



The management of the farm -yard must, how- 

 ever, depend on the system pursued relative to 

 using dung in a long or in a rotten state. If in 

 the latter, the layer of earth that was spread at 

 bottom for absorbing urine and the draining of 

 the dung, has been mixed by turning over, and may 

 be supposed to have been carted on for turnips. 

 But if the dung is taken fresh from the yard, the 

 earth in that case is to be examined, as it should 

 remain till well impregnated, and this may not 

 have been effected at present, in which case it will 

 be left for a longer duration and auoees&ive soiling 



on. 



