■rHE farmer’s MANl^AL. 
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manure, and should be preserved as far as possible. 
Let not a hoof enter your grass grounds in the spring, 
particularly sheep and horses ; the damage will be 
greater than in June. Whenever you turn up jour 
grass grounds for tillage, be sure to plough as deep 
as possible ; this will not only give a good depth for 
your corn, or potatoes,-, to extend their fibres, but will 
lay your sward deep to rot, and thus give you a deep 
rich mould that will not soon be exhausted by tillage, 
and insure you more successful crops. The value of 
clover, when cut and fed green, in summer, or when 
housed and fed in winter, together with the most ap- 
proved method of feeding with it, either with or with- 
out straw, I shall consider under the article Stock. 
Manures. 
The basis of good husbandry, arc labour and ma- 
nure ; thesejrightly applied, will always insure good 
crops. You nave disposed of all your winter ma- 
nures, from the farm-yard and hog-styes, undoubtedly, 
to the best advantage ; the time has now come to at- 
tend to your summer manures ; to dress your lands 
in autumn. Let your hogs be enclosed in an open 
pen, nearto, orinone part of your barn-yard; throw 
into this the scrapings of your barns, together with 
every vegetable substance that will putrify and rot 
through the summer : plough up and cart in occasion- 
ally, such earth as can be collected from your ditches, 
or old sward balks ; your hogs will root and mix 
them together, and thus, with a little attention, you 
may obtain 20 or 30 loads of the best manure, or 
much more if your hogs are numerous and receive 
your attention. You will find an advantage, both in 
the growth of your hogs, and in the quantity of ma- 
nure, if you sow half an acre, or an acre, of clover 
on a rich soil, near the barn-yard, and begin to cut 
early for feed for your hogs ; it will be found both 
cheap and profitable. According to the best practi- 
