44^ Original Letter from Mr. Coclhurn of Orwijlon, Nov. 



thing that helps me to a new and good idea, from which any im- 

 provement can be made. 



I muft defire you will not be difcouraged by what you fay of 

 the country people pulling up and fpoiling your trees. Your 

 ditches, as yet, feem to be principally upon the road fides, where 

 they are moil expofed to their ill nature. "When you come to 

 fubdivide your enclofures, I hope you will not find them deflroyed 

 fo much •, but I defire you will fupply what are already deftroyed ; 

 and if you are fl'.ort of trees, call for what you want from my 

 nurfery. I further defire, that you will endeavour to catch one 

 of thefe malicious people •, and if my own court will not be at 

 the trouble of punifliing them, I dare fay either the Sheriff or 

 Juftices of Peace will do it, .to fuch purpofe as will deter others. 

 If this is not tried, I muft fulpeO: your not doing what is in your 

 power ; and if I don't find trees in the hedges, I fhall be difap- 

 pointed, and not well pleafed. It was a bad feafon laft year for 

 fowing wheat -, but that fliould not difcourage fowing it. It will 

 be found, taking one year with another, the grain that will yield 

 the moft to the farmer who confiders the expence of labour, 

 Sec. 



I am glad you have fuch encouragement for fowing clover and 

 rye-grafs feeds ; and I think you are in the right in trying different 

 feafons for fowing your rye-grafs. I am convinced that it will 

 come more into fafhion, which will, for many years, keep up the 

 demand for the feed ; and thofe who have it to fell will get the 

 advantage, till the country comes to be fully fupplied. In countries 

 ■where clover is much ufed, I have generally heard that the fecond 

 crop is the cleaneft feed. The beaits coming from all quarters to 

 eat it, and making you fear its being fpoiled, muft go to the ac- 

 count of its not being enclofed, and fhews the good of enclofures, 

 or rather the lofs of not having them. The prefent weather (if 

 with you as here) is very dangerous to young crops, both of grafs- 

 feeds and wheat; for, as we have had a ftrong black froft, and 

 rain or fnow twice during the time of it, which melted as it fell, 

 the wet mmft have gone down to the roots, and no doubt but the 

 ftrong frofts have gone the fame length, and fo niay have hurt the 

 wheats in the country, as it has done the beans and peas in my 

 garden. As your potato ground was well dunged and in order, 

 I doubt nothing of your having a good crop of barley upon it, 

 and that you faved feed. The making ground in good order, and fo 

 faving feed, is one of the things I have often recommended, and 

 am glad you have found the experience of it. In accounts of 

 charges and profit, faving of feed is a confiderable article. I wifh 

 vou had told me what was fown, and what you had from it. The 

 profit from the one fourth acre potatoes upon the bad land gppofite^ 



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