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XXXV. Litter from Sir Henry Vavasour, Bart, u 

 the Right Hon. Lord Carrington, P.B.A. on Field 

 Gardening Hujbandry, 



JL HIS communication, published by the Board of Agricul- 

 ture as an appendix to Sir John Sinclair's Obfervations, (fee 

 the preceding article,) ftrongly confirms the practicability 

 of a cottager being enabled to keep a cow by the produce of 

 arable land only. 



" My Lord, London, May 20, i£oi, 



11 I have had the honour of mentioning in converfa- 

 tlon, to your lordfhip, the advantages that appeared to me 

 in cultivating land in the Flemifh manner, or what is now 

 called, about Fulham and that neighbourhood, the field- 

 gardening hufbandry. I have for fbme years encouraged 

 my cottagers in Yorkfhire in this mode of managing their 

 fmall garths or gardens, which are in general from one to 

 three acres ; and I have now an opportunity of (tating the 

 hufbandry of a poor induftrious cottager'* garth. As the 

 man can neither read nor write, thefe particulars have been 

 tranfmitted to me from his own mouth ; and, as I faw his 

 land almoft every day during the laft harveft, 1 can vouch 

 that this account is not far from the truth. 



Profit /. 30 i2 o if fold at market, ex- 

 cluflve of butter. 

 <c His (lock was two cows and two pigs : one of his cows 

 had a fummer's gait for twenty weeks with his landlord. 

 The land was partly ploughed and partly dug with the fpade, 

 cultivated (the ploughing excepted) by the man, his wife, 

 and a girl about twelve years of age, in their /pare hours 

 from their daily hired work, feldom a whole day off, except 



* Thefe fums are conformable to the prices of this year, but it is evi- 

 dent that in other feafons they muft in general be lower. 



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