ADDENDA. 



No. I. 



HINTS REGARDING THE QUESTION, WHETHER ALL THE STRAW 

 OF A FARM SHOULD BE CONVERTED INTO DUNG, OR PARTLY 

 CONSUMED IN FEEDING STOCK. 



J\lR ARTHUR YOUNG, and Mr Money Hill, certainly highly 

 respectable names, contend, that no part of the straw should be 

 eaten, but the whole converted into dung. But cattle in Norfolk, 

 it is said, eat little or no straw, and yet the farmers never have 

 enough of manure ; they lose, at the same time, considerably by 

 their cattle, which they feed on hay and oil-cake. Their very 

 inferior crops of turnips, few of which can be spared for the 

 straw-yard, and their neglecting to soil, sufficiently account for 

 their deficiency of manure, and the great expence of oil-cake 

 and hay, for their loss upon cattle. But there is nothing of the 

 latter at least, known in Scotland, and we certainly make as much 

 of our straw into manure as they do. It may be proper, therefore, 

 to detail the practice of Scotland, supposing the farm of a turnip 

 soil, under the Norfolk rotation. 



The crops in Scotland, upon a farm of 4-00 acres, under a four- 

 years course, are, 100 acres of oats or wheat, after clover; 100 

 acres in turnip and potatoes, upon the preceding division ; 100 

 acres of wheat, barley, or oats, after the turnip ; and 100 acres of 

 grass to succeed these crops If the soil is so good, as not to re- 

 quire pasturing the clovers, the farmer >rill cut perhaps 20 or 30 



