SEPTEMBER. 4t)t 



HOPS. 



Tliis is the season for hop-picking. To unrnu it 

 is sufficient in such a work as this, for no prudent 

 man would venture upon so operose a business as 

 this article of culture, by means alone of such in- 

 formation as he could find Jn books. Mr. Mar- 

 shall has treated the subject in detail ; and many 

 other writers have given information concerning it, 

 from Reginald Scott to the present time. 



PLOUGH FALLOWS. 



Now, if you have leisure, let your ploughs turn 

 up all ports of stubbles: this is one of the mat. rial 

 parts of husbandry, in which some farmers are 

 greatly wanting: they form very mistaken ideas re- 

 specting this part of husbandry, suffering their lands 

 designed for fallows, &o. to remain till .after barky - 

 sowing, before they break tlhein up. 



WATER-FURROWING. 



Make it a rule to water- furrow all wet fields, as 

 fast as the plough leaves them: this is an impor- 

 tant work on autumnal ploughings; for the dry- 

 ness and health of the land depend on the cutting 

 them with judgment. 



LUCERN. 



The lucern will yield another cutting probably 

 this month ; but at farthest, the first week in Oc- 

 tober ; after which the succeeding short growth is 



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