THE farmer’s manual. 
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If the expense of fuel, in boiling, is an objection, let 
it be rcinemberecl, that one or two gallons of water 
are sufficient to steam a hogshead of potatoes, if they 
can be placed over the steam, and covered with bran, 
or Indian-meal, which is perfectly dry, of 4 or d 
inches thick, so as to prevent the escape of the 
steam: before one gallon 'of water iS exhausted, the 
whole hogshead will Ijc boiled fit for the table ; let 
these be mixed in your swill- barrel, or tub, with the 
bran, or Indian-meal, apd placed near your hog-pen, 
for ready use: a good pfen full of fat hogs in the fall, 
makes the purse and, the family rich through the 
year; and the rich manure they will afford you, with 
a little attention in carting in earth and litter, will in- 
crease your next crops more than the hogs expend- 
ed in their fattening ; thus you have your pork clear, 
besides the increas^ed value of your lauds. Try it 
and see. 
Now is the time to begin the arrangement for your 
rotinc of crops, which will best promote the reve- 
nue of your farm, with the b^st fertilizing improve- 
ment for your lat^ds. Hemp, carrots, onions and 
buck- wheat, may be cultivated successively, u[)on the 
same grounds, foj* many years ; but clover, potatoes 
and Indian-corn,, oats and barley, wheatand rye, will 
not answer well for more than two years, without 
high manuring ; and even then, they do best under a 
change of crops : flax will not succeed well upon the 
same ground oftener than once in seven years, there- 
fore, arrange your farm in such order as to have a re- 
gular rotine, or succession of crops, once in 4, 5, 6, 
or 7 years, according to the nature and circumstances 
of your farm. Whenever you sow flax, oats, or bar- 
ley, sow clover, as a fertilizing crop, or clover and 
timothy, or orchard-grass, (which by many is prefer- 
red to timothy,) and stock down ; if with clover only, 
for two years ; but if with clover and timothy, or or- 
chard-grass, for four years; then turn in your clover 
for wheat, either with one, two, or three ploughing-s, 
