T 44 3 



a gentleman — as fubfervient to his grafs land, 

 which any attentive gentleman can manage as well 

 as the beft common farmer — that the corn-land 

 produces or buys oats, and wheat-chafF, and ftraw, 

 for the ftable; oat-chafF, and ftraw, for the dry 

 cattle; and ftubble-flraw, for littering down the 

 cow-yard ; — turnips or cabbages, as green proven- 

 der for milch or fattening cattle from December to 

 the end of March ;* — tares from thence to May ; — 

 and ray-grafs, till natural pafture is in full luxuriancy. 



To me, who feldom keep iheep, and only take 

 in oxen for Jmnmer feedy this exa^ fuccedion of 

 vegetables is not efTential; to thofe who do, it is 

 highly fo; but I always have fuch a portion of it, 

 as to keep the dairy in full milk. As turnips are a 

 troublefome crop on lands that are heavy and 

 moift ; and cabbages, I guefs, a wearing one ;t ox\ 

 fuch it is more convneient to fow immediately after 

 the wheat the whole field with rye and tares for only 

 very early fpring feed; and leave a pafture-field 



* Mr. Onleyhas not given an account of the application of the rye fown 

 3t the fame time with the tares. We conclude it is fed off as foon as the tur- 

 nips are finiftied, as it affords feed for cattle before the earlieft fpring graffes 

 or tares, and is conflantly fown for that purpofe in many parts of Suffolk 

 and Norfolk, and the land is fallowed for a turnip crop after the rye has 

 been fed off once or twice, 



•f This vrould be in fome degree compenfated, if the manure made by th$ 

 cattle while fed with cabbages in the ftraw-yard, were all carried on the field. 

 Till this he done, or allowed for the eftimate, a cooiparative calculation tAa- 

 not be fair, becaufe when turnips »xt fed offhy cattle, (which is never the cafe 

 ^^ith cabbages) the field is greatly enriched by the manure they make upon it. 



Vinfe4 



