106 tT// the Advantages cf Potato Hujbandry, May 



worth two feci fparlngly, much more fo when nearly ftarved ; 

 and the \\m.t holds as to milk cows. 



It is not only tlic duty but the interefl of every individual to 

 promote the improvement of the country ; at the fame time, 

 care fliould bs taken never to millead others. Nothing fhould 

 be recommended, but with great caution, that has not been 

 proven from experience, as your correfpondent has judiciouily 

 done refpecting the drilling of tares for green feed, which will 

 be found no improvement. I have tried them ofteneY than once. 

 Tares in drills loon fall over ; or rather, as foon as above ground, 

 creep along the furface, and prevent either hoe or plough being 

 applied with any t?ict\ •, and, what is ftill worfe, the land does 

 not produce half the bulk when they are in drills, that it does 

 when they are in broadcail, if thick enough fown, which (hould 

 never be neglecled when intended m^uch for green feed •, a clofe 

 crop comes fader forward, in the beginning of the feafon, than 

 a thinnifli one. 



That fome fpring feed for (beep, worth the expence, may be 

 got, in the early parts of England, by fowing tares or rye, where 

 the ground is in good order, and intended for turnips or barley, 

 may be poflible •, but nothing like an equivalent to the expence 

 ean be expected, even in the earlielt parts of this country, by re- 

 forting to fuch expedients. 



I have feldom or never fcen a crop of either rye or tares, even 

 where the ground was in a high Rate of cultivation, and fown 

 early in Auguft, worth twenty ihillings an acre for feed, by the 

 time that ground intended for a crop of barley muft be ploughed 

 over ; and the feed commonly cods more money tlian the crop 

 is worth. If a degree of herbage, that would be an obje£l, could 

 be had from fowing rape, the expence for feed would be but 

 trifling. 



The profpe(ft, lad harved, of a fcarcity of feed in fpring, in-- 

 duced me to fow about three acres with rape, which feems to 

 be coming on -, and the refult fhall be communicated to you for 

 information to others. Your tithe correfpondent, ufing the fame 

 defignation as mine ufed to be, i, for didindlion's fake, (haU 

 fubfcribe myfelf, Yours, &c. 



Mid'Loihiariy January 1804. T. S. S. 



KOTE EY THE CONDUCTOR. 



when young troops are cheered ^nd encouraged by thofe who 

 have grown grey in the fervice, it is a pretty fure fign that they 

 have reached a confiderabie degree of perfe^ion in their tadics, 



otherwifc 



