‘ IE 48 FARMER’S CALENDAR.[APRIt, Li : the Hops dre sexually distinguished, as male and the female, the latter of which only produce fruit; the‘ foun is carefully destroyed with other edad“ Their great naturalenemies areshoney-de w, blight, ef and fly, by which the wep is often rendeted very t precarious. A thousand hills to an acre, seem the th eligible number upon good land; but the number ce of Ail lls, of vines, and of poles, with the length of Fe these, ought to be regulated by the strength and E richness of the Jand. Short poling has been much: recommended by some cultivators, to prevent the i too great exhaustion of the root; and the cultiva- e tion of hops in espalier, has been often proposed, but I know not that any satisfac tory experiment he has been made.: Rortt, Harrow, Hor.~-Grass lands being! cleared, as before di rected, itis the usual practice i to roll— down level, for the scythe, the last Fi: thing: and it is no doubt right, in order to crush: a the inequalities of the st witee ey a worms, in- ot sects, oe their eggs, and to bind the roots of the plat grasses in a soil not sufficiently tenacious; but upon a different soil, already too stiffand clung, or| U natted together with mossand weeds, itis of equal th necessity, first of all, to run the scarificator over I the Jand, or for want of such an excellent imple- m ment, to scarifyit well, indifferent directions, with I the drag or harrows; and it may be in a day or| W twoafterwards levelled with a common light roller. ro The operation of scarifying by no means injures‘ Th the roots of the grasses, particularly the artificial,| bei for lucern is frequently treated in that way, until| Der it has the appearance of amere fallow, without the Tou smallest" 2 Sg