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AUGUST. 



Yorkshire white, with this. management, have proved 

 swet't leeaing grasses, not at all rejected, event* 

 in fields where the flock had a choice. 



Sowing. The even distribution of the seeds 

 being of much importance, a calm day should be 

 chosen for the sowing-, and particular attention 

 given to prevent the seedsmen mixing too many 

 together: let the farmer remember, that the ex- 

 pence -of going often over the ground, is nothing, 

 on comparison with the benefit of having each sort 

 equally distributed. 



Successive managejnent.ln this respect, ilo 

 other attention is necessary than to keep every 

 sort of stock out of the field most assiduously 

 through all the following autumn and winter* 

 Some writers direct manuring; but this should 

 have been done previously to sowing the w-inter 

 tares, if done at all. After sowing, none is admis- 

 sible but such dressings us may be sown by hand. 



CONVERSION OF POOR LAYS. 

 There are> on many farms, tracts of barren lays, 

 fruin moss, poverty, neglect, and bad herbage, 

 upon which a very great improvement may be 

 made by a single ploughing in August. For this 

 purpose, a strong four-horSe plough must be used 

 with a skim-coulter; then go over it twice in dif- 

 ferent directions with the scarifier, so as .not to dis- 

 turb the flag; harrow it once, and immediately 

 sow a quarter of a peck of cole-seed, two bushels 

 of cockVfoot, and one bushel of Yorkshire white 



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