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PART III. 



EXTRACTS FROM AGRICULTURAL PUBLICATIONS. 



From the Agricultural Survey of the West Riding of 



Yorkshire. 



Fallowing Defended. 



Whether Summer-fallow is neceflary or unneceflary ? — ' 

 is a queftion lately agitated ; and, in a refpe^lable work, (the 

 Survey of Norfolk), an attempt has been made to explode this 

 pradlice, which has long been confidered as a moft beneficial 

 improvement. The agriculture of Britain being materially 

 interefted in the ifTue of this queftion, the following anfwers 

 to the Norfolk furveyor are fubmitted to the public. 



To keep his land clean, will always be a principal obje£t 

 with every good farmer 5 for, if this be negle£led, in place of 

 carrying rich' crops of corn or grafs, the ground will be ex- 

 haufted by crops of weeds. Where land is foul, every opera- 

 tion of hufbandry muft be proportionally non-efFedlive, and 

 even the manures applied will, in a great meafure, be loft. 



If the feafon of the year, and the ftate of the weather, 

 when the ground is ploughed preparatory to receiving the 

 feed, be duly confidered, it will be found, that, at that time, 

 it can neither be properly divided by the a£tion of the plough, 

 nor can root-weeds, or aimual weeds, be then extirpated ; 

 Hence arifes the neceflity of working it in Summer, when 

 the weather is favourable for the purpofes of ploughing, and 

 when root-weeds may be dragged to the furface. It is only 

 at that time the full advantages of ploughing are attainable ; 

 for Summer- fallow may, with propriety, be ftyled ploughing 

 in perfe£lion. 



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