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AUGUST. 



reckoned, when kept in great numbers, an unpro- 

 fitable stock ; but it is merely for want of making 

 a due provision of crops for them; a few acres of 

 each sort will carry a. great herd of swine: but let 

 no gap occur between the finishing one crop and 

 beginning another. 



CA'RROTS. 



About the Litter end of this month the carrot 

 crop should be examined. It will require a slight 

 hoeing, not an expensive one; but just to cut up 

 the few weeds that maybe supposed to have arisen 

 since the last hoeing. If the former hoeings 

 have been well performed, gnly a hand- weeding - 

 will do. All the plants that run to seed to be care- 

 fully "removed. 



PULL HEMP. 



The time of pulling is about the beginning of 

 August, or, more properly speaking, 13 weeks 

 from the time of sowing : the leaves turning yellow, 

 and the stalks white, are signs of its maturity : the 

 male and female hemp are pulled together ; indeed, 

 when the crop is thick, it is impossible to separate 

 them. The expence of pulling is generally esti- 

 mated at Is. per peck, according to the quantity 

 Originally sown. 



When it is all taken up, and bound in small 

 bundles, with bands at each end, to such a bigness 

 as you can grasp with botli hands, it is conveyed to 

 a pond of standing water (if a clay-pit the better), 



where 



