iqS Revieiv of the New Farmer'^ s CaUndar, May 



cuTerent from what man wifties, and his conftant objeifl is todeftroy 

 the natural, and to fubilitute artiiicial vegetation in its place. Take 

 our author's word for it, fummer fallow encouraues this natural 

 ve"-eiatio!i; for he charaftcrifes regular periodical fallows as nur- 

 feries, and hot-beds for producing coucli. Before he has advanced 

 two nages he, however, contradicl:3 himfelf ; for, in p. 279, when 

 fpcdiing of intermixing hoed crops of pulfe with broad-caft crops 

 of corn (which, at the fame time, mull be noticed as a departure 

 from liis principles;, he fays, * It will be underftood that a fum- 

 mer's relpite is necelTary at firft, in order to clear the foil of root 

 weeds.' What 1 clear the foil of root weeds by a procefs which 

 encourages their growth ? Again, take a paffage, p. 354, v^hich, 

 though hoillle to the author's principles, is in unifon with ours. 

 * It ought to be an invariable rule to have all the material tillage 

 of heavy land finiihed by the end of Augull, in order to avoid 

 the difagreeable dilemma of being caught by the autumnal rains, 

 in which it is abfolutely impofiible either to work clays to ad- 

 vantage, or to lay them properly to endure the winter.' If this 

 pallao-e does not fully corroborate the dodrines maintained in this 

 review, we are much millaken. What land can *be laid up in 

 the end »f Auguft, unleis it is the portion devoted to fummer 

 ikllow. All the row culture is fmifned long before that time, and 

 little or none of the land in crop can be ready for the plough. 

 The matter is clear, and needs no elucidation i therefore we ihall 

 clofe this branch of the review with a folid and judicious re- 

 mark offered by the refpeclable author of the Stafford furvey, 

 •which, in every point, coincides with our fentiments. That gen- 

 tleman fa^-s, ' Fallowing for wheat on cold, wet, or ilrong lands, 

 and on all fuch as are unfit for turnips, is abfolutely neccfTary; 

 und he w^ho attempts to manage fuch land, without fallowing, 

 ■will have occafion to repent his miflake. Mixed foils, which are 

 toe moift for turnips, have a particular propenfity to the produc'- 

 tion of root- grades : Summer fallov^ing, therefore, becomes indif- 

 penfably necelTary; and every attempt to crop without it, for any 

 length of time, on fuch land, lias terminated to the injury of the 

 and, and the lois of the occupier.' 



We come now to the next article on row culture, or what is 

 pompoufly called the new hufbandry, though our author after- 

 wards chara61erifes it as a primitive practice, derived from the re- 

 moteft antiquity. To this mode of hufbandry we are not hoilile, 

 under certain circumflances, that is, where the foil and climate 

 are favourable for executing the feveral operations. We appre- 

 hend, however, that the chief merit of drilling lies in the regu- 

 larity with which the feed may be fown, and the equal depth in 

 which it may be depofited. Having made thefe admilTions, we 

 canuct go iarther in fupport of a fyflem utterly impraclicable, 



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