THE farmer’s manual. 
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luable feed for your horses and cattle, and thus be- 
come a double saving. One bushel of salt sprinkled 
upon your clover as you mow it, will preserve it 
against heating, and doubly repay you in the value it 
tvill give to your hay. When your clover is housed, 
you may turn in the sward, the first or second year, 
and plant potatoes for a wheat fallow, or feed lightly 
the second growth; but never mow it, if you intend 
to cut it again the next year. The first and second 
years, your crops will be good, the third will fail, and 
the clover will die, uidess ^you dress it with manure 
that will bring in other gr;isscs. The death of your 
clover, leaves ypur lan^l ^enriched by the decay and 
putrefaction of the roots, and thus, after the crops have 
rewarded liberally your expense and labour, your 
land has risen in the va^ue of its tillage, and is better 
prepared for the next roline of crops than before. 
AH farmers of celebrity are agreed, that the true 
and first principles of good husbandry, consist in ma- 
nuring, ploujghing, and a proper rotine of crops. I 
shall defer my remarks upon manuring, until 1 come 
to treat upon the subject of compost, and manures ge- 
nerally, and confine my remarks in this number to the 
article of clover and tillage. If it is your wish to 
combine the improvement of your stock, generally, 
with the improvement of your tillage, sow with your 
clover 4 or 5 quarts of herds-grass seed to the acre ; 
dress it in the fall or spring with about 3 bushels of 
plaster of Paris to the acre, if a light or gravelly soil, 
or with 8 or 1 0 bushels of live ashes to the acre, sown 
upon your grass, or 10 or 15 loads of good yard, stable, 
compost, or hog manure, if a clay or moist soil. If 
it is your wish to continue your field for mowing, 
dress it again the 3d year as at the first, and so on 
successively ; but even in this case, be careful to 
avoid a second cutting until the 3d year, (and even 
then you w ill do well to omit it,) and feed lightly in 
the fall ; a good coat of feed upon your mowing 
grounds, over the winter, is next to a good coat of 
