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they are ploughed and fown with turnips, in which 
way good crops are often obtained in kind feafons, 
on land cleared in tolerable time, but it cannot be 
depended on for the main crop. When a fucceffion 
is wanved, {pring vetches are fomctimes fowed ; 
but at the time they are fown, labour is more va- 
luable, and befides, they are not fo much to be 
depended on. 
Mawnures are chiefly thofe of the fold-yard. The 
wheat ftubbles are frequently mown or raked for 
litter, and cattle kept in fufficient quantity to eat 
the ftraw, but this is not always the cafe; large 
heaps of {traw are feen in fome parts of the diftrict, 
rotting at the barn doors for want of cattle to eat 
and tread it into dung, and this generally for want 
of a fufficiency of pafture to fupport the ftock in 
fummer; but furely the keeping more land down to 
grafs, or railing fome fort of vegetable food for fuch 
ftock, would be ultimately attended with increafe 
of produce and profit to the farmer, and advantage 
to the publick. The formation of the fold-yards, 
fo as to prevent the rain water from wafhing the 
dung heaps, as well as preferving the liquid part of 
manure, is not at all attended to, though fo much 
deferving of attention; on the contrary, from the 
floping fituations of many of the fold-yards, it 
might be imagined, that the prime object in laying 
them out, was to diminifh the value of the dung- 
heaps as much as poffible. Afhes from burnt turf, 
or 
