310 Inquiries* 



also furnished and promulgated for the instruction and 

 choice of our rural fellow- citizens, they would conduce 

 to their real comforts, as well as to the decorous appear- 

 ance of the country. The most expensive are not al- 

 ways the most convenient dwellings ; and houses and 

 other buildings on the best construction, can often b< 

 erected with less cost. 



XX. Comparative results in the same or a neighbour 

 ing farm of equal capacities, applied to tillage crops, 

 mixed husbandry, or solely devoted to grazing or dairy ; 

 would highly benefit those who have the choice of em- 

 ploying their present farms in either way ; or purchasing 

 property, suitable for either mode of occupation or cul 

 ture. If any such results are known, from actual expe- 

 riment, what is the conclusion to be drawn from them ? 



XXI. Experiments in the drill-husbandry and row- 

 culture, of wheats and other small grains, roots and other 

 vegetable products usually thus cultivated, by those who, 

 in circumstances to practise it, could best succeed, and 

 inform of results? Cleansing foul grounds by horse- 

 hoeing, and increasing crops by frequent stirring of the 

 intervals, have raised estates in England and other Euro- 

 pean countries, particularly that of Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, 

 to many fold their former value. If such culture has been 

 practised here ; to what extent has it been carried ; and 

 with what success ? It is believed that, except with In- 

 dian corn and potatoes, very little has been done here in 

 this mode of cultivation. 



XXII. It would be well for those who incline to keep 

 more stock, than the common mode of depasturing at 

 large will admit, to make experiments in soiling, or feed- 

 ing installs, yards, or pens, with green forage ; which 



