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 spreading trees or hedges, by which much valuable manure is lost. The stock are thus kept in a healthier state, and the milk is of superiour quality.

Pigs may be soiled on clover, with much advantage, and for that purpose, there ought to be a patch of clover in the garden of every cottager. But green beans are perhaps a still more profitable article, as pigs are peculiarly fond of them. The Windsor sort are preferred, and the beans should be planted at different times, to insure a regular succession. Horses also are fond of green beans, after being a little accustomed to them; and stall fed cattle thrive well on that food.

There is certainly no mode, by which cultivated grasses will pay so well as by soiling. In the neighbourhood of towns, the same land will produce at the rate of from 20 to 25l. per statute acre, cut for soiling, which would be considered high at 9 or 10l. if let in pasture. The expense of carting the cut grass, must, however, be deducted. Sir John Sinclair.

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THAT valuable article Soot, has hitherto been too much neglected; but the time has now come, that its use is in some degree understood. Although for years past it has been used with great success in England, yet its valuable qualities have been but little known to American Agriculturalists. But where experiments have been made in this country, its utility has far exceeded our most sanguine expectations.

By my own experience, as well as by that of others much more skilled than myself in Agriculture, it is found the best mode to preserve the soot perfectly dry in large quantities. When the time of gardening commences, prepare your leach or large vat; then sift