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The cattle should be employed in manuring the 

 distant parts of the farm, while the horses and other 

 domestic stock are manuring at home. 



The farm-pens of the farmer should be situated with 

 an eye to the convenience of the field from whence 

 the stales are to be hauled, and that are to be manured 

 and cultivated the ensuing year. It is better to make a 

 lane of considerable length to conduct the cattle to 

 water, than to omit this convenience. 



Many farms, too, unfortunately abound with parcels 

 of exhausted land, which are turned out, or are unin- 

 closed, to recover w^hat improvement they can: these 

 lanes may be enclosed as pasturage for cattle ; and, by 

 taking in some woodland, they will afford the cattle, 

 in the spring and summer, shrubs and coarse grass 

 sufficient to constitute tolerable good pastme, and far 

 better than that from arable or cultivated fields, which 

 are generally scanty of grass lintil towards the fall ; 

 and if meadows have been provided for grazing in the 

 fall, they will sustain the cattle until the period arrives 

 for their being put up in their winter habitation. 

 These hints for the management of cattle have been 

 thrown out for the consideration of those who may 

 hesitate to adopt the enclosing system, under the appre- 

 hension that, if their stock are excluded from grazing 

 their arable fields, no other resource will be left for 

 them. — Franklin Farmer. 



SALT WATER FOR CLEANSING WOOL. 



Jt has been found that salt water is very efficacious 

 in cleansing fine wool from the gummy or glutinous 

 matter wl)ich adheres to it. About a pint of salt dis- 

 solved in a common wash-tub of water is said to be 

 sufficient. 



