Article XIX» 



Hode df Farming purfued by a Member tf tU 

 Bath Agriculture Modify. 



GENTLEMEN, 



WHEN I took my farm, which confifted of 

 1 1 ^ acreSi I found the arable undone by 

 improper tillage, and the meadows worn out for 

 want of manure. I will defcribe the farm as nearly 

 as I can. The foil in general is compofed diffe- 

 rently, of mould, fand, gravel, and here and there 

 clay. The farmer I fucceeded was a floven in the- 

 abftraft, and fo bad a ploughman, that he never 

 crofs-ploughed his land through incapability. It 

 was an opinion of mine, that the fooner I got my 

 land in order the better ^ and that the firft expence 

 would be lighted. 



No. I. was a field lying near the houfe, tolerably 

 clean and not wanting dung, found in a barley-- 

 Hubble without clover; this I planted with peafe, 

 and giving it a dreffingof dung, I had a good crop. 

 This was the year 1775, and the fucceeding year I 

 had a good crop of wheat, not indeed equal to my 

 improved land, byt little lefs than three quarters 

 per acre. The year following the wheat, I fummer- 



fallowed 



