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FOR THE FARMF.R*S MAGAZINE. 



L E T T E R XIIL 



Stnclures on Farm- Management near London* 

 (Continued from p. 34. No.JtIll.) 



In the view, already given, of managing your land to the beft 

 advantage, I have not taken into conlidcration the cultivation of 

 faintfoin, or cinqueioil, for hay, or of red clover for feed. Thefe 

 are crops with which I ana almoll totally unacquainted ; and there- 

 fore it would have been prefumption in me to pretend. giving any 

 directions regarding them. In a large farm, or even in a fmaller 

 one that is divided into a convenient number of enclofures, fudicient 

 fcope can readily be found for thefe, or for any other crops that 

 may fuit the foil and climate, or the fituation of the hufnandman. 

 Either of thefe lail mentioned crops might be interpofed on part 

 of what has been appropriated for hay, in the foregoing fcheme 

 of rotation. 



I have learnt, chiefly from Marfliall's writings, that faintfoirt 

 thrives almoil exclufiveiy on foils that have a deep calcareous, or 

 limeflone gravel bottom •, on which foils it continues, for a con- 

 fukrable number of years, to give heavy crops of hay annually, 

 without any manure whatever. From the fame fource of inform- 

 ation, I underftand that fiintfoin will anfwer tolerably on dry- 

 bottomed land that has been recently and fully manured with 

 lime, chalk, or good marl. Following that idea, it is my intention 

 foon to give it a trial on a fmall field of about thr^e acres, of 

 good dry foil, which is to be fully limed in fpring for a crop of 

 barley. Along with the barley, I intend to fow faintfoin, with a 

 mixture of clover and rye-grafs. Should it not fucceed, my field 

 will in this cafe have a fuiBciency of the other herbage feeds for 

 two years, which is my general plan. If it anfwers, I can then 

 keep the field for hay as long as it feems profitable : And in that 

 €afe, I fiiall introduce faijitfoin as a permanent portion of my 

 fyftem of hufbandry ; and by that means {liall be enabled to leflen 

 the tillage part of my farm, on the whole; and, confequently, 

 fhall have a larger proportion of manure for the part which is 

 in tillage. 



When potatoes are cultivated In the field to any extent, they 

 may occupy a part of what has been allotted for oats or beans in 

 the foregoing fcheme of rotation : But they ought never to be 

 put in the place of a perfe£l: fallow, as the potato culture cannot 

 clean the ground, in any effectual degree, from root weeds. They 

 muft always be confidered as an exhaufting crop, and confequent- 

 ly the foil after them ought to be well manured. I do not, how- 

 ever, Uiink your ipjl weD adapted for the cultivation of potatoes ; 



but 



