o^8 Account of the Eddlejlone Farming Cluh. Nov^ 



nidenefs, Indecency, &c. ; his authority being fan£lioned by the 

 penalty of exclufion in cafe of dlfobedience. 



A fmall annual payment, together with fines for abfence, &c. 

 go to purchafe books for a common library. The firil book pur- 

 chafed waS your Magazine, 



The odier rules are jufl: fuch as common fenfe readily dictates 

 for all fuch inftitutions •, I fliall not therefore dwell upon a mi- 

 nute fpecification, but merely notice one which may perhaps 

 be conlldered as not inexpedient. — In cafe of difagreement be- 

 tween two members, cither on account of fuppofed perfonal in- 

 falt, or from miiundcrilanding of the terms pf a bargain, in the 

 oourfe of dally tranfacilons ; fuid members are bound to fettle 

 their difference, by the arbitration of any three club members 

 they fliall agree upon ; and ihail not go to law, under penalty 

 of exclufion from the Club. 



At each meeting, a farming topic is given out as the fub- 

 yzB: o difculhon at the enfuing one •, and (as is neceflary in all 

 meetings of the kind) it is found expedient that fome member 

 in particular fliould come peculiarly prepared, either with a writ- 

 ten elTay, or to fpeak at large to the quefi:ion. One plain coun- 

 try farmer has delivered in four eflays on different fubjedlis, writ- 

 ten whh good fenfe, and intelligibly exprcffed, which I have 

 feen. A very fliort account of thefe will convey to other practi- 

 cal farmers a general notion of what their Eddleftone brethren 

 nre about. 



The firft is upon the queftlon of the preference of a four-flilft 

 or five-fliift rotation after dunging (the fhifts, there, mod com- 

 monly in practice on the land in conltant culture) for the light 

 turnip foil of Eddleftone water. 



The farmer obferves, in general, that, upon the four-fhift ro- 

 tation, all the crops may be expected to be better •, both, becaufe 

 the land is kept more thoroughly clean, from the quicker recur- 

 rence of the fallow j and alfo, becaufe none of them are fo far 

 from the dunging as the laft one of the five-fliift courfe muft be \ 

 befides that more dung m.ay be made from the greater proportion 

 of turnip crop. 



The hve-ftiift courfe muft either admit of peas after the oat 

 crop ; or of <^ fccond year of hay crop ; or of a years pajjure after 

 the hay crop. — Peas are objeded to, being a precarious crop, 

 and generally allowing the ground to become poifoned with grafs 

 roots, or other weeds : If, indeed, they were drilled and horfe- 

 hoed, with a little dung, the rotation roight be more properly 

 extended to fix fliifts •, that is, by taking a crop of oats after the 

 peas : But as pc2S muft be fown fo much earlier than turnip, as 

 not to allow of th^ fame preparatory fpring fallowing before fow- 

 ing, and, at any rate, in growing, foon interrupt the progref* 



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