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cial grasses and other green crops, as much live stock 
may be supported and fattened upon their produce, 
as if the whole farm were in pasture ; while the other 
half, enriched by the large quantity of dung produced 
by the consumption of these crop, will furnish as 
much disposable produce, for supplying the markets 
with the various sorts of grains, as if the whole farm 
had been kept under tillage. Hence the superior ad- 
vantages and profit, derived from a conjunction ol 
stock and corn husbandry ; by such a union, the 
grand system of husbandry can be more extensively 
and substantially improved, than upon any other plan 
hitherto discovered.” — Siticlair^s Code. 
JULY. 
Indian-Corn and Haying. 
Vou doubtless have half hilled your ludiau-corn, 
and cut your clover in the month of June. Every 
careful farmer will now dress his hills with ashes, or 
plaster, to render his earing heavy and full, and 
get through with his hilling as far as possible, before 
his English mowing claims his attention : any inter- 
ruption in time of haying, is both unsafe and perplex- 
ing. Some fanners delay their hilling until haying, 
to husband time, calculating to hill when the weather 
is foul and unfit for haying ; this is the worst calcula- 
tion possible. The damap to your corn by such 
delay, is bad ; to hoe or hill when your land is heavy, 
or wet, is bad ; it leaves your land tight, excludes 
the free circulation of air to the roots of your corn, 
and is a waste in the delay of hoeing, both in time 
and strength ; all which are bad. Select, therefore, 
the finest weather for your several hoeings ; your land 
will plough easy, hoe easy, your weeds will wilt and 
die in the sun, and your corn will be refreshed with a 
