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FEBRUARY.

Ploughing for the earlest Crops, such Lands as are sufficiently dry—tIrrigation, or floating Lands for their Improvement—Manuring Grass Lands —Top dressing VW‘heats—Sowing Beans, Black Oats, Hog Pease, Cabbage Seed, and Tares— Planting—Felling Coppice Wood—Clearing and dressing out Borders—Sale of fat Beasts—Fat or Store Pigs—Clearing old and cutting new Water-furrows—compose the leading Objects of Employment for the Month of February.

PLOUGHING.

HE lands which were fallowed upin autumn, with a view to the first spring crops, should be stirred as early this month as the state of the soil will admit, both on account of the general advantage of early sowing, and for the sake of ob- taining future leisure by the present dispatch of business; but it may be safely laid down as a maxim, rather to defer the sowing, or even lose the season, than to go upon the land whilst in a state of puddle or mortar for it is only sowing to reap loss and‘disappointment, as those farmers may be convinced, who willbe at the pains to compare such a crop with the expences.

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Beans are put into the earth in various Ways, according to local custom; with the drill, broad- cast, or dibbled in by hand: sometimes they are cast over the land, and ploughed in; at others, harrowed