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five posts on each side; cut posts 15 feet long, and put 

 them in the ground four feet deep ; nail 2x6 planks across 

 from post to post, beginning three feet from the top, and 

 leave a space of about three feet between joists. Then 

 put strips about \y^-^\y^ lengthways, resting on the joists, 

 allowing a space of 12 inches between the strips. Cover 

 the shed so as to exclude rain, and leave the sides and the 

 ends open. After the vines have matured, cut them after 

 allowing the dew to dry, and allow them to lay in the field 

 five or six hours after cutting. " Haul up and scatter on 

 racks, the same day cut, not allowing them to be wet with 

 rain or dew. They can be piled two and a half feet deep 

 on the racks, being careful to leave space of six inches 

 between racks, and not to pack the hay in putting it up. 

 This finishes the job, and in six days you have nice sveet 

 hay, well cured, with the leaves on. Whether it rains 

 or not, after six days the hay can be baled or stored away 

 and the racks refilled. Other methods are good if you 

 have fair weather, but one hard rain will spoil the hay, 

 causing it to mould and the leaves to drop. Beggar weed 

 makes very fine, sweet hay, but must be cured without 

 rain ; and it should be mowed when about a foot high, in 

 order that suckers may put out, and to make the stems 

 more numerous and smaller. This hay, however, lies 

 very close, and can not be well cured by the plan just de- 

 scribed. 



FERTILIZEES. 



This is a subject well deserving the careful considera- 

 tion of every tiller of the soil, and more especially the 

 trucker, who requires a soil high in fertility, and capable 



