l8oo. View of the /Agriculture of Yorkshire, 295 



management and manure, they can be brought to yield from 

 one to two tons of excellent hay per acre, fucceeded by fog 

 or aftergrafs, worth from il. to 3I., the occupier of fuch 

 meadows ought well to confider, before the attempt of break- 

 ing them up, whether he can, by the plough, increafs their 

 value, efpeci^lly where corn tithes are taken in kind. The 

 rents of thefe lands are, in general, by much the highefl: of 

 any in the Riding. On Lime^ the theory laid down is per- 

 fectly confiftent with the refult of the befli conducted experi- 

 ments on that important fuhjsCl ; particularly thofe of Ander- 

 fon, Dundonald, and Hunter. It is accordingly treated as a 

 ftimulus only to other ma.iure?, or the remains of animal 

 and vegetable fubftances previoufly in the foil, but> without 

 the addition of this ftimulant, perfectly inert and ufelefs to 

 vegetation : on thefe principles, it is evident much lime is 

 mifapplied, if not thrown away. Many pertinent and judi- 

 cious hints occur, on the beft methods of applyirig lime, well 

 fupported by fa6ts adduced by cnrrefpondents i and, on the 

 whole, this fe6lion contains much inllruction, on fife and 

 tried principles. 



Several papers on the warping of land, as pra£tifed, for 

 fome time part, in the fouthern parts of the diftridl, throw 

 much light on the fubj -dt, and will be curious and informing 

 to the inhabitants of the northern parts of the county. This 

 operation is a mod ingenious effort of human induftry. What 

 wonders would it not perform, if encouraged ! what a garden 

 might Britain foon be, if permitted ! Hundreds of thoufands 

 of acres of land on the coads, well adapted to this fignal 

 rnode of improvement, are, to our certain knowledge, loft to 

 the community, in confcquence of one or other of the obfta- 

 cles already infifted on. 



Chap. 13. Here are fome notices on the foiling of cows 

 and horfes on mown grafs, &c. during the Suinmer months, 

 a practice highly meritorious; the benefits of which practice 

 are by many fuppofed to be oiore (Ir. kingly in favour of 

 working horfes, tnan even of cows. Ihe lurveyors fpeak 

 favourably of the long horned breed of cattle ; but many of 

 the nioft attentive breeders in the Wetl Riding, will prefer 

 the Durham, or (liort horned kind, in molt (ituations, as 

 producing an animal of better proof, when fatteiied, more 

 productive in milk, th'^ ox.m more fit for libour, and, on 

 the who'e, as a race better adapted to the climate, than the 

 form.crly fo much admired Lancafl.ire or Craven breed : but 

 it muit be obl'cived, a flroi g di!li.;clion is and cu^ht to be 



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