136 BERMUDA. 



Cruinea-com.: — Finish planting out in all spare 

 land for fodder in September and October. 



WoEK FOR July, 



Plant bird's-eye peas for a full crop or for fodder ; 

 potato and pumpkin slips. 



Remarhs. — Not mucb doing, except in planting 

 sweet potato slips, which should be planted in rainy- 

 weather for full crops. Clean Guinea-grass and 

 corn ; clear up the waste land ; remove the cattle 

 oat of the sun ; keep the manure-pits covered, to 

 protect them from the sun ; strew the manure over 

 with salt or lime occasionally, to preserve the gases 

 and to kiU the insects ; clean the arrowroot, and put 

 the weeds on the manure, as they protect it from 

 the sun. The pigsty and cowsheds should have 

 between two or three inches of soil or sand laid over 

 the bottom, which ought, to be lower than the sur- 

 rounding ground, and then bedded up with the 

 refuse of the garden, sage-bushes, sea-weed, or any 

 such thing, and be allowed to lie two or three 

 months without cleaning, as this, with stable manure, 

 makes the best compost. 



In milking cows great care should be taken to 

 milk them quite dry, or the best cow will soon be 

 ruined. A calf to be made fat should be tied up 



