text:  After describing how every favourable day should be taken in preparing the land for wheat beans oats potatoes turnips tares or naked fallow in their respective order he continues:-- "And when every one of all these objects has been promoted and there is found little or nothing to do till the burst of spring-work comes both horses and men may enjoy a day's rest now and then without incurring the risk of throwing work back; but before such recreations are indulged in it should be ascertained that all the implements great and small have been repaired for work--the plough-irons all new laid--the harrow-tines new laid and sharpened and fastened firmly into the bulls of the harrows--the harness all tight and strong--the sacks new patched and mended that no seed-corn be spilt upon the road--the seed-corn thrashed measured up and sacked and what is last wanted put into the granary--the horses new shod that no casting or breaking of a single shoe may throw a pair of horses out of work for even one single hour--in short to have every thing prepared to start for work when the first notice of spring shall be heralded in the sky