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kothing has contributed more to the improvement' of the col4 

 Wet parts of this country, than the plan which seems daily to gain 

 ground, of building sheds for housing cattle in the winter. This 

 not only prevents the land from being poached out in wet season?, 

 whereby the sward is frequently trod out of sight, but also pro- 

 duces dung of which the land is so much in want, and of which it 

 has hitherto had so little ; it being a well-known fact, that many 

 pieces of land have been constantly mown every year within the 

 memory of man, and that frequently, not earlier than August, 

 without the least return of dung, or any other manure whatever, 

 save only the assistance supposed to have been given them by the 

 foddering of cattle thereon in the winter, and which in wet sea- 

 sons has certainly done more harm than good. 



Those parts of this district which have a covering of red loam, 

 particularly in Witham Park, and those which lie on the deep sand 

 vein, which runs through Kilmington and Yarnfield, have been 

 much improved by chalk, from Bradley, Long-Knowl, &c. and by 

 this assistance, may be very profitably kept in tillage ; but the want 

 of a permanent manure for the cold clays, which comprise the 

 greater part of this district, is a very great objection to the 

 ploughing them at all, and a strong recommendation to the keeping 

 them in a state of pasturage. / 



Wherever there is, in this cold country an appendage of arable 

 land to a dairy farm, and which is certainly not only useful, but 

 absolutely necessary on account of straw for making dung; care 

 should be taken to prevent the tenant from using any part of the 

 stall dung on the arable land, so as to oblige him to buy lime, rags, 

 ashes, and such like for the latter, and to reserve the whole of the 

 stall dung for the grass land. 



Every encouragement should also be given to induce the tenant 

 to under drain the land, or if the landlord has already made th« 

 drains, to preserve them. He should also be obliged to mow, and 

 feed the land alternately, and induced by proper cattle sheds, to 

 take his cattle off the wet lands sometime in November, whereby 

 he would not only save treading out his land, but also be enabled 

 to get early- grass ; lie would by that means also be enabled to mow- 

 early iu the summer, and of course to get a good crop of after 



grass^ 



