454 AUGUST. 



POTATOES. 



The potatoe crops in rows must be hand-weeded, 

 if necessary ; but it is now probably too late to 

 horse-hoe. If the intervals are weedy, or bound 

 at all, or the plants not sufficiently earthed up, 

 run the shim through them, but with much care, 

 which will cut up weeds, and loosen the earth : 

 after which the double mould -board will strike them 

 clean, and throw the earth against the rows, bank- 

 ing them up: the running roots and fibres will 

 follow such new thrown up earth, and increase the 

 crop. 



LUCERN. 



The lucern will be ready again for cutting : if 

 unfortunately, you have any drilled with too wide 

 intervals, attend well to the state of the land, and 

 take care to keep it in loose, well- pulverized order, 

 and perfectly clean from weeds. But with crops 

 put in as they ought to be, that is, broad -cast, or 

 the rows at nine inches, nothing will be wanted of 

 this sort. 



SAINFOIN. 



It will be now time to turn into the sainfoin 

 fields that were mown in June; but you should be 

 cautious of feeding it with all sorts of cattle indis- 

 criminately. Sheep, if kept too long on it^ bite out 

 the heart by eating into the bulb. 



