THE FARUEK’s UAMUAL. 
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■1. Every plant derives from the earth for its growth, 
such properties as are peculiar to itself; this plant, 
when followed successively for two or more years 
upon the same ground, will exhaust the soil of those 
jwopertics peculiar to itself, without lessening its 
powers to produce some other plants ; this fact is most 
striking in the article of flax, which will not bear to 
be repeated oftener than once in seven years, and is 
common to all crops, with the exception of those no- 
ticed as above. 
5. To avoid this evil, arrange your farm into such 
divisions as will enable you to improve all the varie- 
ty of crops your lands may require, in such regular 
succession, as to form a rotine of 5, 6, or 7 years, 
according to the nature, quality and situation of your 
farm. 
C. This method will make poor land good, and 
good land better. Try and see. 
APRIL. 
Your hemp and flax are all dressed ; your wood 
cut and housed, or piled up; and your sleds housed 
safe for the next winter. Your orchards are all prun- 
ed, and the brush removed and cut up for summer’s 
use. Your fences are in great forwardness ; your 
mowing-grounds are dressed from your barn-yards, 
and your hemp, flax, oats and barley grounds, to- 
gether with your spring-rye, and wheat lands, now 
claim your attention. This is one of the most impor- 
tant months of the twelve, for the farmer. Harrow 
down your ridges ; plough and cross-plough for your 
hemp, flax and barley, and dress, after the first 
ploughing, with well rotted manure from your stables, 
barn-yard, or hog-pens, at the rate of 10, 15, or 20 
loads to the acre, according to circumstances, and 
sow from two to three bushels to the acre of each 
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