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consumption, at the north side of your buildings, 
where it may be kept cool, until the frosts of winter 
set in, then stow it away in your cellar. 
Plough into one-bout ridges (with deep ploughing) 
such grounds as you design the next season, for hemp 
and flax ; the extra benefit you will derive from the 
frosts of winter, and the rotting of the herbage, will 
richly repay the expense, in your succeeding crops. 
NOVEMBER. 
Your carrots, potatoes, and other roots, together 
with your Indian-corn and flax, inustnowall besecur- 
ed and housed ; and your.hemp is also housed, or un- 
der a proper management, and in a good way. Your 
orchards are cleared, and your cider all made, and 
your ridge-ploughing for winter, generally through : 
now let your farm-yard claim your first attention. 
Cart on to your mowing grounds all the manure col- 
lected i.i your barn-yard, and in your stercorarios, and 
hog-pens, through the summer, spread it in moist wea- 
ther, or before a rain, as even as possible, and brush 
it down thoroughly with a light harrow, or a thorn- 
bush, or any other bush that will answer the purpose ; 
your moist grass grounds, which cannot be washed 
by drains, or enriched with plaster, and your young 
clover, claim your first attention for fall manuring. 
Two loads of dung well spread on grass lands in the 
fall, are equal to three in the spring, in ordinary sea- 
sons ; but if the following May and summer should 
prove dry, two loads in the fall are equal to four in 
the spring. This is too serious an advantage to be 
neglected. After all your care and attention to this 
most important branch of good farming, through the 
summer and autumn, if your dung should fall short of 
your demands, you may now supply the defect, by re- 
serving your high and dry gravelly, and sandy lands 
