SEPTEMBER. 



of all good husbandry; and it js well known, tl.at 

 no vegetable yields such a quantity of salts as fern: 

 from which we are to conclude, that it is well 

 adapted to the making manure. The good farmer^ 

 in this work of bringing fern, should not confine 

 himself to his own wastes, of which he may have 

 none, btit purchase it of his neighbours, if they are 

 within a tolerable distance. It will answer exceed- 

 ingly well: he need not therefore fear paying for il, 

 as for refuse straw. 



STUBBLE. 



This month is the proper time for cutting the 

 wheat and rye stubbles, and raking into heaps, for 

 carting home to the farm-yard for litter, upon the 

 same principle as fern is carted there. This is a 

 business strangely neglected in most parts of the 

 kingdom ; but is nevertheless of great importance : 

 the stubble left on the land is not of much advan- 

 tage as a manure; it prevents the plough from 

 turning in the land with neatness, and a crop does 

 not succeed scon enough to feed on it; but, carted 

 into the farm-yard, it becomes an excellent manure. 

 Any sort of litter there is valuable, and serves for 

 the cattle treading into dung. In those parts of the 

 kingdom where this use of stubble is common, the 

 price for cutting and raking into heaps is from 

 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. per acre; a very small expence, 

 compared with the great advantages that undoubt- 

 edly result from it. 



HOPS. 



