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when two days old in a shed, with as little light as 

 possible, kept very clean and warm, and allowed to 

 go to the cow but two or three times a day. 



Work foe August. 



Plant sweet potato slips, black-eye peas for fodder 

 or green manure ; plant cabbage slips ; sow Bermuda 

 carrot-seed for carrots at Christmas. Sow turnips, 

 oats ; plant Irish potatoes. 



Remarks. — We may in general expect rain this 

 month, and should take advantage of it to put down 

 all the slips. Sow oats for early fodder, Irish 

 potatoes (Bermuda seed), and dig any land for oats 

 and potatoes for next month. 



Irish potatoes. — Pick them over for seed, and let 

 them be in good order for planting. In wet weather 

 plant some for a crop in November. 



Onions. — Have the seed in good order for planting 

 next month. 



Carrots. — Sow some fresh seed of early horn for 

 an early crop ; old seed will not answer. 



Cabbage. — Sow a little early York or sugar-loaf. 



Turnips. — Sow a little white globe or red-top ; old 

 seed will come up, 



