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NOVEMBER. 



which is generally in quarries, rag-stone, or grit- 

 stone. The best are lime and gr.it ; because gene- 

 rally most plentiful, and at the same time. ..much 

 the easiest cut ; but whin-.stone canqot be used to 

 profit for this or any other work, as it is so hard 

 that it will not cut without great difficulty. But 

 some grit-stones cut with so much ease, .that you 

 may. build walls of it without mortar, as true as 

 with, and will, if well laid, last nearly as long. 

 In the enclosures of wastes, it is proper by all 

 means to begin the walling in . this month, which 

 is so soon after the hiring time, Michaelmas, and 

 continue the work all winter. 



DIG MANURES. 



All this month the carts should be employed in 

 carrying marl, chalk, clay, or ditch-earth, upon 

 soils that are light enough to admit carting on 

 through winter. 



CUT ANT-HILLS. 



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This is "the proper season for destroying ant- 

 hills. Many ploughs have been invented for cutting 

 them "off levd with the surface of the field, ready to 

 be carted away; and if that is the way you take' 

 with them, such machines are of great use; for they 

 will certainly do the work of many men. 



MADDER, 



Look well to the land deep ploughed in the pre- 

 ceding month for madder, tp observe if it Jays per- 

 fectly 



