43(4 StrJBia'es o Fanii-Managcnient near Lcnatn. NoV«: 



but fo far as you may find it convenient to cultivate thenij I would 

 recommend the jTround to be manured with lon^ ilrawey litter, in 

 the bottom of the drills in wliicli the potatoes are fet, and not 

 with your well-rotted dunei; or compoil. The draw will keep your 

 ftrong foil open, and will allow the potatoes to fend out their run- 

 ners on all fides. 



In the fcheme of hufl:>andry which I have endeavoured to trace, 

 I have omitted to mention tares or vetches. Thefe ought to be 

 cultivated for the work-horfes, and may be grown on pirt of wliat 

 is allotted for beans in the rotation I have pointed out. I would 

 flrongly recommend thefe to be cultivated in drills •, though I 

 mull acknowledge I have never yet followed that excellent prac- 

 tice myfelf, but mean to do fo in future *. I undcrfband there 

 are tvt^o kinds cultivated in the fouth *, one of which is fown be- 

 fore winter, and is ufcd largely as fpring feed for flieep. With 

 that fpecics I am altogether unacquainted, and lilieM'ife with the 

 expenditure of them on fneep Hock. The fpecies called fpring 

 tares, which is fown as early as poffible in fpring, is the only 

 kind that I know any thing about, or that is in ufe, fo far as I 

 know, in this quarter of tlie country. 



Rye is, as I underftand, much cultivated in fome parts fo 

 England, as an early feed for iheep; but I am not at all converlant 

 with the practice. But your foil is by no means fit for rye, which 

 thrives but in dry fandy foils. 



R,-;pe, likev.'ile, is much cultivated in many parts of England, 

 with the fame intention, as an early fpring feed for fheep. That 

 plant Tnould probably thrive with you ; -and it might be very bene- 

 ficial to fow it, immediately after harvell, on the land which is 

 intended next fpring for beans, oats, or barley. In that cafe, it 

 muit be eaten off in proper time for working the land for either 

 of thefe crops ; and, by giving manure to the foil, would increafe 

 the produce of the fubfcquent crop conhderably. I need hardly 

 infift againll lowing rape, with the above intention, on the land 

 which is intended for fallow ; as it would unqueftionably inter- 

 fere very much with the work neceflary for rendering that procefs 

 an effc6tual cleaner of tlie foil, without wliich a fallow is a mere 

 pretence, and doe,s not deferve tlie name. 



Cabbages, cultivated in the fxcld on a large fcale, are, in many 

 parts of England, found a moil ufeful crop for feeding cattle 

 during winter, and thereby producing a fuppiy of m.anure for the 

 farm. Thefe, too, would probably anfwer well on your foil, and 

 may be placed in the room of beans, in 'the fyltem of rotation, 

 but fliould never be put hiitead of perfect fallow, and for the 

 fame reafons already advanced with regard to potatoes. Not hav- 

 ing 



* This year (i^oo) it bus betn dyne with advantage. 



