APPENDIX. 



Some Account of an effectual Mode of Cleansing heavy Lands 

 infested in a high degree with Fallow-weeds, particularly 

 with Couch-grass ( Agropyrum repens), without the aid of 

 Naked Fallow; as practised by Mr. R,. Dickson, of Kid- 

 brook, Blackheath. — By the Editor. 



The triumpli of skill and perseverance over that powerful 

 enemy to good husbandry on tenacious, damp soils, viz. the 

 worst of fallow weeds,— co?/cA, we believe was never more 

 satisfactorily demonstrated than by Mr. Robert Dickson, on 

 his farms at Kidbrook, Blackheath. The soil of this part 

 of his farm, to which the following observations are confined, 

 so overcome with couch-grass, is a strong, tenacious clay, 

 and in some parts approaching to cementing gravel. Large 

 portions of the land, when Mr. Dickson entered on the lease, 

 were extremely foul with fallow-v^eeds, particularly couch- 

 grass. The rent being high, to have attempted the cleansing 

 of all this land by the only known means of naked fallows, 

 or more expensive process of forking out, would have been 

 attended with great loss, if not with ruinous consequences. 

 We shall here content ourselves with stating what we have 

 witnessed of this very excellent practice, referring our readers 

 to a view of Kidbrook farm for full demonstrative evidence 

 of the merits of this valuable practice. 



A field, containing 83 acres of the nature and condition 

 above described, came into Mr. Dickson's hands at 

 Christmas last ; the previous crop had been potatoes and 

 white crops ; two ploughings and harrowings had been given 

 after the white crop was taken, and the land raised up to be 

 ameliorated by the winter frosts. In the month of April 



