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The new farmer's calendar : or monthly remembrancer for all kinds of country business ; comprehending all the material improvements in the new husbandry with the management of live stock, inscribed to the farmers of Great Britain / by a farmer and breeder [i. e. J. Lawrence]
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FEB.| FARMER’S CALENDAR. 15

ed, or home-fed oxen, which can bekept, may find anadvantageous market inthe course of this month. January and February are also good seasons for the sale of pig-stock of all descriptions, fat or lean. WATER-FURROWS—Constant attention must be paid throughout the winter season, to the state ot the water-furrows, in the wheat-grounds, that they be always kept free and open with the spade, the earth being liable to fallin from various accidents. Let all new-ploughed lands be regularly water- furrowed, as soon as the plough has finished, which is necessary as well at this season as in all- tumn, more especially on stiff or retentive soils.

MARCH.

Shutting up Meadow and Pasture for the Grass Crop —S§ced Tillage for Oats, Furze, Pease, Spring- Wheat, Cabbages, Potatoes, Carrots, Parsnips, Chicory, Canary, and Radish-seed—Sowing Grasses—Turnip Fallow—Breeding and fatiing Stock—Barley.

MEADOW AND PASTURE.

1 the beginning of this month, inspect the meadows and pastures, make all the fences and gates secure, beat and spread the dung left by cattle,also the ant and mole-hills; roll, where the soil will admit, leaving the land ina clean, even, and husband-like state, free of wood, stones, or rubbish, which may obstruct the scythe.

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