Chap. r. BARLEY, OATS, AND RYE. 293 



'•' up another field which had juH: borne hemp, and made It into 

 ♦* beds, ten or twelve feet wide. In the beginning of September, I 

 ** fowed it with about 120 pounds of rye, which came up very 

 " thick. I mowed it three times, before it fpindled, and got hftetn 

 " thoufand weight of green fodder, which was of great fervice to 

 " my cattle, the feverity of the winter having left very little grafs 

 " on any pafture grounds. 



** This fodder purges and nouriilies cattle. The cows that were 

 " fed with it gave plenty of milk, which made excellent butter. 

 " Many farmers, who faw what I did, intend to follow my examole. 

 " I let the fourth ilioots of this rye grow up to feed. The ears 

 ."were very fmall, and yielded me nearly the quantity I had 

 " fown. 



Mr. Miller n;entions the pradice of fowing rye for fodder, in 

 fome parts of Englai'xd. " Rye, fays he, is fown in autumn, to 

 " afford green food for ews and lambs in the fpring, before there is 

 " plenty of grafs. When this is intended, the rye {}:iculd be fown 

 " early in autumn, that it may have itrength to furnifli an early fcedj 

 " The great ufe of this is to fupply the want of turneps in thoie 

 "-places where they have failed ; as aifo,. after the turneps are over, 

 " and before the grafs i> grown enough to fupply green food for the 

 " ewes : fo that in thofe feafons, when the turneps in general faily 

 " it is very good huOandry to fow the land with rye, efpecially 

 " where there are ftocks of flieep, which cannot be well fupported,t 

 " where green food is wanting early in the fpring." 



SECT. m. 



Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Pott on. 



*' "OEING perfuaded of the advantages of the new method of 

 •^ cultivating land, I refolved to make a trial of it, by comparing*- 

 " the produce of a field cultivated in tlie common way, with that 

 " of another field cultivated according to the new hufbandry : and 

 " as M. Duhamel has defired all lovers of agriculture to try, by 

 " experiments made with care, vvhether it be mofl pro.^fable to fow 

 •* beds, with two, or v/ith three rows of cornr or, which is the 

 " fame thing, to find at what diftance the .rows ought to be fo-wn ; 

 " I divided a Ipot of ground into ten equal parts, which I made- 

 " into as many beds, each fix feet wide. 



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