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crop but oats, and probably injuring them. Wheat, 
clover, and oats, feem to be the crops beft adapted 
to thefe foils. Cabbages are not known here in 
field culture, and probably thefe kinds of foils would 
require more dung than the fituation could com- 
mand to cultivate that plant to any advantage. It 
may be right to notice, in this place, an error of Mr. 
Marfhall’s in his Rural Economy of Gloucefterthire, 
vol. ii. p. 33- He reprefents the Cotswold farmers 
as “ wifhing to plough for every crop when the 
foil is wet, and working even their fallows when. 
they are moift.” ‘This miftake originated, no doubt, 
from the account given him of the wheat procefs, 
as juft related. The fact is, the farmers here are 
as defirous of working their fallows in dry weather, 
and find the fame good confequences refulting from 
it,as in other diftricts. Attention is likewife paid 
to fowing the barley in dry weather. The old 
adage refpeéting peafe, “ if you fow ina flood, they 
will come up ina wood,” feems verified on this 
foil; as for oats, their hardinefs requires no par- 
ticular nicety. Such an error is very excufable in 
an account which is only given in an excurfion. 
Mr. Marfhall’s account of this county contains 
much valuable information, and has greatly fhort- 
ened mine. 
Oats.—The wheat ftubble is mowed, if worth it, 
or otherwife harrowed, when it becomes brittle 
enough to break off, and carted to the fold-yard ; 
and 
