TFARMER’S MANUAL, 
MARCH. 
You have now collected your wood and fencing stuff 
for the next season ; your hemp and flax are in great 
forwardness, and your threshing was all closed early 
in February. You have cut your cions for grafting. 
Cut up your wood, and house it, or pile it up for the 
summer, and next winter; the difference in the say- 
ing, between green and dry, or seasoned wood, will 
nearly pay the expense of sledding, besides the extra 
trouble of kindling fires; both which are objects 
worthy of attention. 
If you have neglected to sow clover, at seed-time, 
upon your winter grains, you may now sow to advan- 
tage, as soon as the ground is bare ; (the sooner the 
better,) or upon a light snow — both will answer well. 
You may harrow down your corn-hills, or light po- 
tatoe grounds, as soon as the surface is free from Irost, 
and sow your spring rye, it will generally do better, 
than after a ploughing, as late as the first of May. 
Dress with stable, compost, hog-pen, or such other 
well rotted manure as you have, such grass grounds as 
you have neglected in autumn ; three loads now may 
be equal to two then ; but it is best to secure a good 
crop even now. Your winter-grain should now be 
dressed with plaster, if it was neglected at seed-time ; 
your mowing grounds, which are upon a dry soil, 
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