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thing else. Chicory is good, so is clover; and 

 tares, mown every day, will answer well in the 

 same use. In want of these, give natural grass ; 

 but any of them are better, with plenty of litter 

 for dung, than turning the horses or oxen into the 

 field. 



THE FALLOWS, 



Have an eye to your fallows this month, and do 

 not follow the example of those farmers who to- 

 tally neglect them for works of hay and harvest. A 

 farmer carries on his business very unprofitnbly, if 

 he does not keep men and horses enough for all 

 works : it is unpardonable to suffer the fallows to 

 be over run with weeds. 



A ploughing well-timed, just before harvest, is 

 certainly of much consequence in fallowing ; a 

 work in which well-timed ploughings are of more 

 importance than the mere number of earths given. 

 It is necessary in such a work to suppose this busi- 

 ness of fallowing, but the modern well-informed 

 husbandman will, after his first year, but rarely 

 have recourse to them. 



FOLDING. 



Where folding is the system, it should this month 

 be followed with unretnitted diligence : the lands 

 usually fixed on for this purpose are the wheat-fal- 

 lows, which is very judicious in those farmers who 

 have no crop sown between the turnips and wheat ; 

 but let the attentive, accurate husbandman, lay it 



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