5 FARMER’S CALENDAR.[MAY

of feed, proper for eachspecies; particularly reserv- ing the natural grasses for milch cows. The best pastures will be assigned to the forward and fat- ting stock.‘The labouring cattle, horses or oxen, are now turned out by night; which measure ought to be adopted for the health of the ani- mals, even if green fodder be cut for them, and if no better place can be provided, the straw- yard, at this season, will be a more wholesome bed for them than the stable. All the pig-stock of sufficient size, namely, of the growth of four or five months, may be turned into the clovers for the whole summer season, during which they will want nothing farther than water, and a cood look-out that they do not break into the corn; to which indeed, some particular sorts are more prone than others; the least quiet,[ think, are the small and prick-eared. They should all be well ringed at the nose, for itis not true that they

-will not root up clover. Should there be no pond

in the grounds, watering troughs must be conve- niently placed.‘The flock may be folded upon the clean fallows, where the manure will be im- mediately stirred under the surface, and the sheep should be kept long enough in a place to leave an ample covering, although much the less be fold- ed; for it is avery deceptious practice, to dress land in a.thin and scattering way. Fattows—The Lands intended for turnips, cabbages, or other immediate crop, will receive a ploughing this month: the wheat-fallows also should be stirred, to root up the crop of weeds, last ploughed for, and in fact should be repeatedly

worked