iSo.'}' G/i Extii'pathjg WIA/is atid Bioom, 28^ 



ihe coinniliTiOiier of Tupply, which feems now the rule In truflea 

 making. At any rate, the parifli money ought to be entirely 

 under the manngemeiu of the proprietors and farmers of the 

 parilh, who ^>encrally will he found excellent truflees, rcfiding 

 on ami farnung their land, and up to every nccefiary kind of 

 knowledge iox executing the truft; more fo, often, than the great 

 proprietors rcfuling at a diltance, or thofe taken up with very 

 ditFcrent purfuits. 



Gentlemen, I wifii the foregoing, or fomething like it, to appear 

 in your next Number; for you are at full liberty to ufe the file 

 DS you pleafe. You may either eke, pare, or burn. I am your 

 iincere friend, and confequently a friend to my country, 



February 1804. Flaminius. 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMERS MAGAZINE. 



Ofi Extirpat'wg Whins and Broom, 



Sir, 



Even fmall matters are not below the notice of attentive agri- 

 culturilts; and though the fubjeds I now write upon, feedling 

 plants of whins, or furze, and broom, be in themfelves fmall, 

 their confequences are far from unimportant. * A ftiek in time, 

 faves nine,* fays an old Scots proverb; therefore, I hope the trifling 

 attention recommended in the following flight communication, 

 may be found really to ferve the hufbandman very materially. 

 The practice which it is meant to exemplify and recommend to 

 others, originated with me from another old proverbial fay- 

 ing* 



* How broom, hae broom ; 

 Povv broom, nae broom. ' 



A few years ago, I improved, by turnip fallow, lime, and 

 dungy a dry field on my farm, much overrun with the above 

 flirubs. Immediately after the turnips, eaten by flieep on the 

 ground, the field was fown up in grafs with the barley crop, and 

 fucceeded to a wifh. Numberlefs feedlings of whin and broom, 

 however, made their appearance in the ftubble *, many of which 

 1 pulled up during harvcft. As my intention was, to rcftore 

 fertility to a piece of land that had been long ruinoufly over- 

 cropt, I paflured with Iheep the firft year; and foon perceived 

 the grafs to be infefted with vail quantities of whin and broom 

 plants. As my fmall flock of ewes and iambs were paftured ia 

 that field, it became my daily refort > and almoft every day, 



Ta I 



