io6 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



Staffordshire there is a conftant intercourfe between the 

 lowlands and the moors for change of feed, which 

 they reckon to have the wifhed for effect, in prevent- 

 ing the curl. 



Manner of keeping Potatoes. Generally in heaps in 

 the fields, where they are covered fufficiently deep to 

 prevent froft from penetrating to them; {haw is often 

 put next the potatoes, to affift in keeping the moifture 

 from hurting them, but the beft thing is a thin fod, 

 fuch as houfes are covered with before -the thatch is 

 laid on. Turf-bog refills both rain and froft better 

 than any other covering. 



SECT. 5. Crops not commonly cultivated* ^ 



ALTHOUGH the culture of green crops is not much 

 praftifed, the neceffity of cultivating them feems to be 

 generally underftood amongfl the gentlemen of this 

 county, who, by offering premiums for their encourage- 

 ment to little farmers, and by fhewing the example 

 themfelves, bid fair for introducing this important 

 branch of hufbandry, which, if it once becomes gene- 

 ral, will tend, more than any other meafure, to alter 

 our general fyftem for the better. One great obftacle 

 to this improvement arifes from the populoufnefs of the 

 country, which renders it difficult to protect turnips, 



&c. 



