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THE TAIIMER’s MANUAL. 
Lose no time with your sickle; cut down your grain, 
if the kernel is formed into a consistence ; the Juices 
in the stalk will afford more nuiriment to the kernel in 
the gavil, than when standing, and your crop will be 
saved from ruin. This method is always safe, and 
must never be omitted. When your straw is cured, 
shock, stack, or house it, as before. One or two days, 
in good weather, will cure your grain in this state ; 
but if the w’eather proves foul, bind and stark, or 
shock, for security, and open your stacks in fair 
weather, until they are fit to house. Every conside- 
ration must give place to the saving of your crop. 
Ridge in with one-bout ridges, such stubble lands as 
you design to winter fallow for spring crops. 
AUGUST. 
Your harvest is housed, j'our late potatoes are 
planted, and your turnips are generally sown. Your 
late haying, and your oats, now claim your particular 
attention. Proceed with your late haying as with 
your English, and timothy ; if you gather it in a care- 
less and slovenly manner, and suffer it to be exposed 
to the rains, as being of little value, and not worth a 
careful expense, it will repay you in your own way, 
and will become truly of little value ; but if you col- 
lect and house it with proper attention, it will be the 
more valuable, and will repay you with interest. Be 
sure to finish before the 20th of August. 
Watch your oats, as you have done your English 
harvest; cut them when the .straw is partially green, 
a d as soon as the oat has formed into a consistence. 
The grain will be better, the straw more valuable for 
feeding, and a handsome saving in the shelling; but 
when you house them, use a little more caution than 
with your grain, in ventilating your mows; the oats 
will pack closer, and be in more danger of heating, 
than your grain. ” 
