AUGUST. 455 



DIG MANURES. 



This is a work which should never stop for hay, 

 harvest, or any thing else, if the farmer has money 

 in his pocket, and his pirn is thus to improve his 

 farm ; the sooner the work is done, the longer he 

 has the benefit. 



FOLDING. 



If this practice be pursued, the fold should never 

 stop in this month : the flock will bear it. Re- 

 member the general rule, of folding the land that 

 will be first sown. 



HUGS. 



This is the common month for the sows to bring 

 their second litter of pigs ; and, if the fanner has 

 not had the forecast to provide plenty of wash in 

 his hog-cisterns, he will find the disadvantage. 

 Clover will not do for sows and pigs; they must be 

 led on the skim-milk, batter- milk, and cheese- 

 whey, that have been collecting through the pre- 

 ceding months, while the dairy was at its height ; 

 bran, pollard, barley, buck- wheat, or pease ground 

 into meal, and small quantities mixed in it. 



Lettuces now come into use, and are of excel- 

 lent service to the sows and pigs; and may be 

 deemed necessary if the dairy is small; and -in every 

 event to tend to saving corn. He who keeps many 

 swine cannot be too attentive to providing such ar- 

 ticles of food as shall save corn-feeding. Hogs are 

 G g 4 reckoned. 



