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We do not advocate the spreading of much compost 

 on grass-lands when we can plough them, for we can- 

 not avoid a loss from evaporation at any season of the 

 year ; but there are some lands too low for planting, 

 and too rough to be ploughed. They are good for 

 nothing but grass, and they often yield a good harvest 

 between the rocks and the stumps. Composts for such 

 lands should have a large proportion of loam or fine 

 gravel mixed with them, and then the loss by surface 

 manuring will be less. 



We undoubtedly make more profit of our manures 

 by incorporating them with a ploughed soil ; and if we 

 have ingenuity enough to turn under a green crop of 

 rowen, in aid of the surface application, to be rotting 

 as it is wanted, we may enrich our lands with great 

 rapidity, and constantly keep them rich. But this 

 should always be done about the first of autumn, as 

 we have often stated. — Ed. 



PIG-PEN IN AUGUST. 



At this season of the year the sty should be par- 

 ticularly attended to. The health and comfort of all 

 human beings who may pass by one are concerned in 

 the proper management of the contents. 



Manure is of immense importance to the farmer, and 

 now is the best time for increasing it. Hogs in the 

 fore part of the season make but little manure, for they 

 are not so fully fed ; but we should begin to feed them 

 better before this month is past, that they may be fit 

 for the butcher before the coldest weather comes on. 



At this season, loam from the road-side may often be 

 procured where there is a rank vegetable growth 

 which may be taken up with it. All this should be 

 thrown into the pen, and the pigs will look as much 

 neater for this supply as will some floors with a quan- 

 tity of sand spread over them. 



