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THE farmer’s SIAN’UAL. 
and harrow in the seed, not upon the furrows, this will 
bury your seed too deep ; but u|)ni) • ,s:ii-face made 
smooth and even by the harrow. Vour land rannot 
be pulverized too much with the harrow before your 
seed is sown. Your wheat, two bushels, and rye one 
and a half bushels to the acre, will do best ; when 
dressed with plaster, one, two, or three bushels to the 
acre, or with lime or leached ashes, sown, and har- 
rowed in with the grain. Your crops will be more 
secure against the rust, and blast, and smut, than 
when sown upon the stronger manures, especially if 
soaked in a strong pickle of sea-salt, or saltpetre, 
rinsed clean, and rolled in plaster, or live ashes, 
when sown. I’laster and ashes answer well also, 
when sown upon your hemp, flax, barley and oats. 
The time of sowing all your spring grains will de- 
pend much upon the season, with this general rule, 
the earlier the better, with proper security against 
frosts ; be sure to catch a dry seed-time if possible, 
the difference in the value of your crop, will richly 
repay a strict attention to this part of good farming. 
Hemp will do to be repeated sctccessively, for many 
years, with high manuring ; but all the other ci ops as 
above, should be sown after corn, or [lotatoes, or 
upon stubble land, ridged in in the fall, and perfect- 
ly free from weeds, or their seeds, or upon turtiip 
grounds after stubble. Select a warm, rich piece of 
ground near your dwelling, of 1,2, 3, or 4 roods, ren- 
der it rich with horse or hog manure ; plant this with 
Etiglish white potatoes, they will answer to begin to 
dig iti July ; these, when steamed, or boiled, will serve 
for early food lor your hogs, and bring them forward 
for early pork, and save your corn in the fall. I can 
say that 4 pigs, which averaged 27lbs. in the middle 
of July, by this mode of feeding, averaged ISOlbs. 
at Christmas following, with a very trifle of corn, 
excepting the last month, they then had corn altoge- 
ther, to harden the poik. This will be found one of 
the cheapest modes of bringing fonvard pork-hogs. 
