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a third fuccefiive crop of corn, or breaking up any part of the fmall fliare of paflure land, 

 which ufiially falls to the lot of farms in general. Many leafes do not admit of rape or cole- 

 feed being grown, except for feed, more efpecially within the four or five laft years of the term. 

 Atfthe time of granting a leafe, the proprietor generally takes care to have the bir.idings 

 put into proper repair; after which the tenant is bound to keep them fo, and at the end of 

 the leafe to leave them in tenantable repair, being allowed rough timber on the premifes, 

 with brick, tile and lime, for fo doing. 



28. There is no manufafture eftabliftred near this place; there is however a little yam fpun for 

 thecoarfe woollens manufaflured in different parts of the county by a few of the women and 

 children, but the generality of the poor will not condefcend to the employment. 



sc). A part of the hufbandry pradifed in this county might certainly be introduced with great ad- 

 vantage into various other parts of the kingdom, where they ftand much in need of improve- 

 ment. To be inftrudled in the mode of ploughing here pradifed would furely be of vaft 

 iitility in fome of our midland counties ; for inftead of employing four, five, or even fix horfes 

 at length, with a miferable, ill-fliaped, unwieldy plough at their heels, and two men to 

 attend them, the farmer would find his advantage, if he could be brought to do the fame 

 work with one man, a plough on a better conftrudion, and two or at mofl three 

 horfes abreafi:. PofTibly fome remarkably heavy ftiff lands, may in wet feafons, require the 

 farmer to work his horfes at length, in order that the land, after it is raifed, may not be 

 trampled upon more than is neceffary ; but in fome of the midland counties this mode of 

 ploughing is indifcriminately ufed, where the land is even lighter and eafier to plough than 

 a large tra£t of this county, in the raifing of which a greater power than that of three 

 ,j^ horfes abreaft is feldom, if ever, exerted. Were a man to be feen hoeing his crop of 

 wheat in the fpring, he would in many counties be conlidered as a madman, and yel here it is 

 very commonly praflifed, and found, under certain circumflances, to anfwer exceedingly 

 well. A better and more cleanly way of preparing land for turnips, and alfo a more accurate 

 mode of fetting out the plants in hoeing, feems requifite in many parts of the kingdom. It 

 is not much more than ten years ago, fince in one of the northern counties, turnips feemed to 

 be grownfor the fake of the blade, rather than the apple ; and a farmer who was boafling of 

 a fine thick crop Cfor the turnips literally flood as thick as cabbage plants in the feed-bed) 

 really thought himfelf laughed at, on being told that his crop ought to have been twice hoed, 

 and the plants regularly fet out nine or ten inches afunder. 



30. A fociety for the improvement of agriculture was inftituted in this county about a year ago, 



3r. There certainly are in this county a number of aftive, intelligent farmers, who have 

 fliewn a laudable fpirit in the improvement of their lands, and who have fpared neither 

 trouble or expence iu making experiments. 



32. Inan enclofed county like this, the fences of its enclofures ought to be a principal obje6^ 

 of care and attention; but to the great difcredit of the generality of our farmers (though 



they 



