430 JULY. 



cattle are apt to break their bounds, if this article 

 suffers through neglect. 



Beasts that are soiled in stalls or yards, have, 

 through all this season, plenty of food, supposing 

 a proper succession of those crops which have beea 

 often mentioned for this use. 



WAFxPING. 



As this capital improvement, where yet known, 

 goes on only in summer, the farmer should of 

 course keep his works active every tide, and never 

 lose *one through neglect, or from having his 

 sluices, &c. out of order. 



MANURING NEW LAYS. 



This part of the management will not be found 

 essential if the land be laid down in the courses 

 prescribed ; it however will at all times be found 

 very beneficial. The best time for it is in August 

 or September, if done the first year, being then a 

 jear old, when a moderate dressing will much pro- 

 mote the thickening of the herbage. But upon 

 soils rather unfavourable to grass, on which the 

 success is at all doubtful, I should prefer (if it can 

 be done but once) to delay it to the period when 

 new lays are apt to fall off, that is, in August of the 

 third year, if fed ; but if mown, immediately after 

 clearing off the hay, which is the best time of all 

 others for manuring grass-land. 



Top-dressings of soot, sifted ashes, malt-dust, 

 and other bodies which will wash in the first heavy 



