zz THE RUQ^L SOCRATES. 



fame mimber of laboring hands as when he had only 

 half the number, that his eflatc will clear Jcfs than it 

 did before the additional purchafe. Thus it is evident, 

 that a tarmer may have too much ground, as well as tuo 

 much Jive flock. — For our conviction, nothing more 

 is required, than to take a ftirvey of an over-grown 

 farm badly occupied ; where lands, with every advan- 

 tage of (ituation, will not produce more than a fourth 

 part of what lands of the fame quantity and quality af- 

 ford, divided into equal allotments, amongfl the inhab* 

 itants of a populous village* 



f 

 When Kliyogg converts one of his fields into a mea- 

 dow, he always choofes the befl foil ; and commences 

 the work by clearing it of ftones with the utmoft affidu- 

 iity. He then pionglYs it, and gathers the ftones a fe- 

 cond time that lodge in the furrows ; harrows it over ; 

 and when it is quite level and all the fmall ftones pick- 

 ed up in a third gathering, he fows it with grafs-feed. — 

 Nor is he vcvy anxious in the choice of feed ; for experi- 

 ence has tau^^ht him, that the difference of herbage de- 

 pends entirely on the nature of the ioil and the prepa- 

 ration of the ground. The fame meadow that is mat- 

 ted with mofs and every kind of unprofitable beggarly 

 weeds, will produce trefoil of the bcfl quality when 

 improved by mr^nure, adapted to its nature."^ In this 

 - ' inflancCj 



* Kliyo2;g» in this remark, difpl^p hh real experrencr.-J have offen 

 made the fatr^e oblervation : (bat it fiiouid he liaiireil ; for if the nature 

 oi prrenfiia! ^\:\nX'\ be bnd, manuring will improve their liiicuriance as well 

 aa l!iat of the beft vei^etahies.) -.The following inftance, mentioned by that 

 excellent cultivator Sir Dlgby Legard, is a very ftrong proof. *' I havs 

 •* ofren obferved flr'lds covered with wiiiteclover.where pafture has preced- 

 «*^ed arable land,, withoot any perfon's remembering the fowlngofit; 

 ** and often^ in an old worn-out meadow or pafture, a crop of this will ap- 

 '< pear after plentiful dunging. --Thi^ kaCi. of the whiie clover fpringing 

 f' in great cjunntiiies on land, coploufly manured, where there was before 

 " fuch ri^anuring no appearaace of it, is very cuiions : but frequent in 

 •* nonhern parts of Ragland and in Scotland*— -It is not confined to manuF- 

 ** ing; \]x\\ divncr ; bnj ihe fame rvmt f-jllowF, where ?. change of foil is 



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