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THE FAIIMER’s MANUAL. 
this easy way of enriching your farm, together with 
its profits, needs no comment. One set of hurdles 
will last, with careful usage, and careful housing, 20, 
30, 40, or 50 years, provided they are taken up and 
secured before the frosts of winter fix them in the 
ground, and thus expose them to the weather unne- 
cessarily over the winter. Cover with deep plough- 
ing the manure of the first enclosure, as soon as you 
have changed your feeding; this will secure against 
all loss from evaporation by the sun, and give your 
land an immediate advantage from the fermentation, 
before the frosts of winter set in. Plough in this 
manner successively, at your several movings, until 
you have fed and manured your whole field ; thus your 
land is prepared for any crop you may choose, and 
at a small exf)ense, with a handsome profit. Your 
fat sheep arc now ready for market, and your lambs and 
store sheep are prepared to winter, safe and cheap. 
The growth on your wool will repay all your ex- 
penses, both in its quantity and tpwlity. 
Plough up clean and deep such stubble, or sward 
grounds as you design for Indian corn the next sea- 
son, particularly such as are accustomed to be eaten 
by the cut, or grub-worm ; you will find this practice 
an effectual remedy. Salt, when sown on the sward, 
w^jDroducc the same effect. 
'Harrow your land, when ploughed, as fine as possi- 
ble ; this will prepare it to receive a benefit from the 
air and frosts of winter, that will richly repay your 
trouble in the next crop, whatever it may be. 
House your cabbages; set out in some convenient 
part of your cellar such as you design for the table, 
ami place those intended for stock in some open shed, 
or loft, where they will lie secure against heating un- 
til they are fed out . — See Stock, 
Pull and house your turnips designed for market, 
and the table, or winter feeding, and secure them in 
your cellar against frost. 
