OCT.] DEPTH 0V PLOUGH IXiJ. 5O<) 



expencc, and cart them to the yards, and standing 1 

 folds, for littering and making them into dung : I do 

 it at 3d. per one-horse cart-load. They do not rot 

 easily, but that is no objection to them ; they are a 

 sponge to be saturated with urine, and if not touched 

 previously to carting on to the land, will convey to 

 the field much of what might otherwise be lost ; and 

 they are extremely useful in aiding the main object of 

 bedding the yards. 



DEPTH OF PLOUGHING. 



Our young farmer, on entering his farm at a season 

 when the ploughs will be all at work for various pur- 

 poses, will necessarily have the question of depth 

 come often across his mind; and it is a subject that 

 will demand no trifling attention. In some of our 

 well cultivated counties, the shallowness of the plough- 

 ing is remarkable ; when almost every other point of 

 management is very spirited and complete, a defi- 

 ciency in this may not be at once perceived in the 

 crops; but I have no doubt but failures are often 

 caused by it, though attributed to other circumstances. 

 It is a subject too ample, fully to discuss in a work of 

 this nature ; but the following hints may have their 

 use. 



1. An additional depth should first be gained in au- 

 tumn, that a successive change of seasons may take 

 effect in atmospheric influences before any seed is ven- 

 tured in the raw stratum brought up. 



2. The quality of that stratum should be examined; 

 it is sometimes steril by reason of an acid, discoverable 

 by boiling in water, and putting that water to the 

 test of blue infusions. 



3. Animal 



