THE farmer’s manual. 
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low, ore the only substitute for manure, under til- 
lage ; because the effects are the same, with this ex- 
ception, that the meliorating efferts arising from the 
fermentation of strong manures, are both greater for 
the time, and more' permanent and lasting. The ma- 
nure, also, will continue to assist the plough, in me- 
liorating the soil for after crops, by causing a new 
fermentation upon every new exposure of surface to 
the air, until the strength of the manure is wholly ex- 
hausted. Hence again, the value of your potatoe fal- 
low, to increase your number of stock, and quantity 
of manure. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Begin the second cutting upon your English mow- 
ing grounds ; but let your timothy stand for feed ; 
remember that rowen requires double the drying of 
the first crop, or the hay will be bad, and give your 
horses a cough, and the heaves. 
Top the stalks upon your Indian-corn close to the 
ears, as soon as the car becomes too hard to boil, 
when the weather is fine ; bind in small bundles and 
stack in small stacks, the same day, to secure against 
rains; your corn will ripen the faster, and receive no 
injury, and your stalks will be more valuable. If 
your hay is short, or you wish to sow winter grain 
after your Indian-corn, or secure your corn against 
the effects of early frosts, you may cut up your corn- 
hills close to the ground, in fair weather, with a sharp 
knife or sickle, and lay two rows into one, in small 
bundles, as when you top and secure your stalks ; 
bind your bundles above the ears, and stack the same 
day in small stacks, either u])on the borders of your 
field, or upon an adjoining field ; you may then 
plough and sow as upon fallow grounds ; secure your 
stacks by doubling down the tops, and binding the 
