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6iay be worth notice: — The firfl. is tlie praffice whlcli hasforthefe two years pad been 

 adopted, hy taking off the tops of the beans jufl as the bloflbm is fet ; this not only 

 improves the quahty, but increafes the quantity, and caufes them to ripen fooner, 

 •which is a confiderable advantage, by giving time to get the fucceeding crop of wheat 

 in, perhaps, a fortnight earUer. . The other i-s, that of fowing clover early in the fpring, 

 among twenty acres or one half of the wheat, and bufh-harrowing and rolling it in. 

 This has produced a very fair crop of clover the next year; and the other half, after 

 the wheat, is winter and fjjring fallowed, and planted with cabbage. There is a double 

 advantage refulting from this ; that one half of this fliift, fo managed, becomes a fum- 

 mer crop, and the other half a winter crop ; and by obferving the next year to change 

 the parts, by fowing the clover wher'e the cabbage was beiore, the clover and cabbage do 

 not come round upon the fame ground but once in eight years. 



Cabbtige has been tried feveral years, hut his Majefty's hulbandmen never got into 

 theright management of it till this year ; but now the crop is remarkably fine. 



It will not be improper to mention, that the drum-headed cabbage is the bell fort ; 

 tlut the feed fhould be fown in Auguft, the plants firfl fet out in November, and tranf- 

 plantedfor good in July. The next thing to l)c noted is their aj>plication : — They are 

 certainly inferior to turncps for fatting. Taut fupenor in the incrcafe of milk, either of 

 cows or ewes, and therefore they are particularly good whei^there is a dairy or breeding 

 flock of flieep : and I trufl; his Majeffy will, the next yeaning feafon, try an cxperl- 

 iftent, of wihich I have high expcSation, which is to flicc or quarter the cabbage, and 

 feed the eWxfs with them upon fuch of the meadows as want manuring, which I flatter 

 ajvfelf will be of ineftimable fervice to die ewes *nd lambs, and be the means of in- 

 •creafingihe next year's crop of hay confiderably. 



The tr-iic light of viewing thefe improvements is to confider them as a fort of new 

 creation to the public ; for, as it is a faft not to be controverted, that thfeireducild number 

 -fif afcresin ibe park, from their improved -ftate, fupport as many deer ahd other cattle 

 as the whole did before, the produce obtained from the farms is ail clear gain ; and as 

 trops of wheat and r)-e from the 140 acres fown, upon the moR moderate calculation, 

 may be fet at 3,360 bulhels, and allowing fix bulhels to a human mouth, this gives a yearly 

 provifton inlwead for 5-60 people; to fay nothing of the fatting-off of forty oxen, the 

 bread of 800 fheep, and the growth of at Icaft 5000 bufliels' of oats and beans ; all of 

 which, it mufl be obfervcd, goes in aid of the public market, as the work is doneby 

 oxen entirely. : 



As ■more txpcrrincnts aVe in future made, I rhay perhaps •troiibJe the Society -wit'h'ara 

 accctum of them, as I am perfuaded t'ley cannot be regiftered any'where elfe,, tti-gife 

 them the c edit, and to excite the imitation I flatter myfclf they may dcj[ervc': but for 

 thcp-cicnt, I fhall clofe my obfervations upon his Miijefly's fdrm^s, with a'dyfcrt'jvtiort bf 



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