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farm with an adequate number of cattle, from a dread of inability to raise sufficient winter keep for their support; since the improved system of husbandry, and the example of the ablest culti- vators, so Clearly point out the mostabundant and never failing resources.

MAY.

Finish sowing the Spring-Crops— Homestall—Pas- tures— Sheep-fold— Fallows— Hoeing and Weeding— Horse-hoeing— Cabbages— Ruta- baga—ops—Burn-baking—W eeding Wheats —Cut Turf to stack for firing—Shut up Clovers, &c. for Seed.

OMESTALL— Pastures— Catrir.—

The first or second week in this month may

be looked upon as the concluding period of the straw-yard or winter-keeping: for by this time the winter’s provision will have been consumed, and the spring pastures will be ready for the re- ception of the stock. An immediate arrangement is necessary, in order to clear the yards, when the manure which has been collecting through the winter, must be moved and disposed according to art. The state of the fences in the feeding- grounds having been well examined and made good; the cattle are to be distributed into the kind E2 of