4 NOTES. 



candidly answered, " That he knew no more how to manage such a soil, than if 

 " he had never seen a plough." Farmers, when they change their situations, 

 are too apt to carry along with them, that plan of management to which they 

 have been accustomed, without considering that it may not suit their new situa- 

 tions. 



47 Statist. Account of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 468. 



48 It is well observed by Dr Coventry, (Discourses, p. 83), that in describ- 

 ing and classing soils, the divisions should be simple and obvious, and should 

 have utility and practice in view, and not nice discriminations. Marshall has 

 divided soils into fifteen different kinds ; but this number is too great, and can 

 only tend to confuse the reader. 



49 Where th'e soil is a mere blowing sand, the great object is, to prevent 

 its doing mischief, by what are called, " sand-floods," or, " sand-drifts." 

 This can only be done, by propagating maram, or sea-bent, (Arundo arenariaj, 

 and other plants, which will grow in such soils, and will tend to fix them. This 

 point is particularly attended to, by the inhabitants on the shores of the 

 German Ocean. Coventry's Discourses on Agriculture, p. 116. It has of 

 late been much practised in Flintshire, &c. On this subject see Sir J. E. 

 Smith's Travels on the Continent. 



50 Fife Report, p. 29. 



51 The fuller's earth, sandy, stratum of Surrey, Kent, Berks, Bedford, and 

 other counties, is covered by a black-blue clayey marl, resting upon aluminous 

 clay ; one or other of these tenacious strata, may very frequently be obtained ; 

 and either of them applied liberally to the sandy soil, will cure its defects. 



52 Curwen's Report, p. 14. 



53 Brown's Treatise on Rural Affairs, vol. i. p. 83. 



54 Sir Humphry Davy's Lectures, p. 178. On his recommendation, Sir R. 

 W. Vaughan of Nannau, in Merionethshire, tried peat on a sandy soil, with 

 much success. 



55 Marshall's Norfolk, vol. i. p. 370; and vol. ii. p. 139. Minute 79. 



56 Young's Calendar, p. 476. Communication from Edward Burroughs, 

 Esq. 



57 The best method of raising wheat on sandy lands, is on a clover ley, when 

 the soil has got an artificial solidity of body, and is thereby rendered capable of 

 sustaining this grain till it arrives at maturity. This is particularly to be recom- 

 mended, when the turnips have been eaten on the ground by sheep. Dibbling 

 the seed, in the centre of the flag, is, in such cases, an excellent practice. 



58 Suffolk Report, p. 125. 59 Young's Calendar, p. 123. 



60 See Mr Arthur Young's Lecture on the Husbandry of Three Celebrated 

 Farmers, (Bakewell, Arbuthnot, and Duckett), printed an. 1811, p. 29. 



61 Hints on the Agricultural State of the Netherlands, printed an. 1815, 

 p. 10 and 76. Besides carrots, the Flemish farmers sow turnips after the crop 

 is reaped, slightly ploughing the land for that purpose ; also spurry, for feed- 

 ing milch cows, by which excellent butter is obtained ; and with their oats, they 

 sometimes sow trefoil, or yellow clover, and get one good cutting of that crop, 

 before it is necessary to plough the land. 4 



62 See Improved Agriculture, and a Sketch of the Flemish System, by F. 

 Vanderstraeten, Supplement, p. 25, printed by Longman and Co. an. 1816; 

 and Hints on the Agricultural State of the Netherlands, p. 71. Radcliff's 

 Agriculture of Flanders, p. 39 and 49. 



63 Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. vii. p. 142. A proprietor who had 

 carried the stones off a field by way of experiment, found that it obstinately 

 refused to yield its usual crop, and thus. discovering his error, was glad to re- 

 store what he had injudiciously taken away. Ditto. See also Young's Nor- 

 folk, p. U. 



64 Remark by Edward Burroughs, Esq. This rule of preserving stones, 

 is by some extended beyond sandy soils, more especially in hot climates. 

 Even in this country, stones are said to be of use in promoting the depth of 

 thin soils ; in rendering the texture of clays less compact, and less apt to 



