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sion, after you have turned up and planted with po- 
tatoes such rich swards as you design for wheat til- 
lage in autumn, or for spring and sumnrer tillage the 
next season ; (be sure to accomplish this by the mid- 
dle of July, if possible.) 
When your potatoes are planted, and your harvest 
is cut and housed, enter with spirit upon your late 
haying; let nothing interrupt your progress; if the 
weather is foul, but not rain}', continue to mow^ ; when 
the sun appears, your swaths will be ready tor turn- 
ing, and in this way, your haying will progress rapid- 
ly; unless you are slovenly, by putting off the evil 
day, and prophesying smooth things, and leave your 
hay in the winrow. or spread about your fields, until 
the thundergusis, and storms overtake you ; your bu- 
siness is then obstructed and thrown into confusion, 
your expenses increased, and your hay ruined. 1 hese 
evils, a careful farmer always avoids, by keeping his 
hay always under his contvol, verj/ eertmordinarifs e.T- 
cepud, and thus his hay is good, and commands the 
first price in market ; his barns are sweet, his ex- 
penses are light, and his purse is heavy. 
As soon as your harvesting is through, plough in 
such parts of your richest Stubblefields as you in- 
tend for turnips ; dress your turnip ground with plas- 
ter, live, or leached ashes, or well rotted manure 
from your stercorary, and sow, and harrow, or bush 
in, one pound of seed to the acre. This process will 
insure you a good crop, and guard your soil against 
the bad elTecls of this exhausting root. If you can 
take advantage of feeding off your turnip crop with 
sheep, by hurdles, upon the field, you cannot raise 
too many ; the feeding will enrich your soil and your 
flock ; but if your calculation is to pull for market, 
you cannot raise too lew ; the profits upon the crop 
will not repay the expense of tillage and damage to 
your land. 
You have doubtless given your buck-wheat lands 
one fallow ploughing in Jane ; cross-plough and sow 
