580 DECEMBER. 



A thrashing-machine is an object of such im- 

 portance to every arable farmer, that no intelligent 

 one will be without i'i. 



FARM-YARD. 



Attend, without ceasing, to the littering of the 

 yards, stalls, stables, cow-houses, hog-sties, &c. 

 With a little management, all the urine might be 

 preserved : the drains that carry off the overflow- 

 ings of the yard, should lead to a small well, with a 

 pump fixed in it : this pump should have a Tight 

 trough turning on a pivot, to receive the liquid, and 

 a heap of turf or marl be kept within reach of the 

 trough : it should convey the liquid over the whole, 

 which, being carted on to the land, would prove an 

 excellent manure. 



PLOUGH UP LAYS. 



It is by this time wet enough to .begin to break, 

 up grass lands, a work that should not be done while 

 the land is dry; for it will not then turn up in clean, 

 Vvell-cut furrows. Ploughing grass lands is a very 

 good piece of husbandry, when they are worn out 

 and over- run with moss and other rubbish, of hide- 

 bound. To keep land under such unprofitable turf 

 is bad management : it should, by all means, be 

 broken up, and kept in a course of tillage for three 

 or four years, and then laid down again ; by which 

 conduct four times tfre profit will arise, that could 

 be gained from keeping it in lay : but paring and 

 burning much superior. 



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