450 AUGUST. 



that complaints of it are innumerable. Make it 

 therefore a law, that no gleaner shall enter a wheat 

 field until it is quite cleared of the crop : this is 

 the practice in many places, and great advantages 

 are found from it. But, upon this plan, always de- 

 sist from turning any cattle into the field until the 

 poor have gleaned it ; for, if a use is made of keep- 

 ing them out while sheaves are there, merely for 

 an opportunity of turning hogs and other cattle in, 

 it is double-dealing, and a meanness unpardon- 

 able. 



FARM-YARD. 



At the leisure time of harvest, such as the wet 

 clays, when the team cannot carry corn, and while 

 all the harvest-men are employed in reaping and 

 mowing, if the works of tillage do not require at- 

 tendance, let the horses and oxen be kept to earth- 

 cart, to form the bottom layer in the farm-yard, 

 carrying peat, marl, chalk, turf, ditch-earth, or 

 pond-mud : the quantity in proportion to that of 

 the dung which you expect will be raised. 



TURNIPS. 



The second hand- hoeing of the broad- cast tur- 

 nip crops must be given some time this month, nor 

 should it ever be omitted on account of works of 

 harve-t. In counties where turnip-hoeing is a 

 common business, there is no difficulty in this, 

 as men enough are always to be had. In some 

 places, many make it their business to hoe all har- 

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