NOTES. 5 



subside ; and where the soils are puffy, in collecting the shifting looseness of 

 the materials. 



65 Notes on the Soils of Cornwall, by John A. Paris, M. D. Printed 

 an. 1818. 



66 Brown's Treatise on Rural Affairs, vol. i. p. 83 ; General Report of 

 Scotland, vol. i. p. 53. Breaking the stones of a gravelly soil by machinery, 

 where the stones are soft, has likewise been recommended, more especially if the 

 stones are round ; in which state, they do not easily imbibe water, and they rea- 

 dily part with moisture, which does not adhere to a smooth surface. 



67 Sir H. Davy's Lectures, p. 162. 



68 Kent Report, p. 15 ; Kincardineshire Report, p. 31. In Cornwall, (sec 

 Report, p. 11), Mr James, of St Agnes, cleared a small paddock of the 

 quartz in it, at the expense of about .40 per acre, and the experiment, on the 

 whole, is said to have answered, by the sale of the stones, and the improve, 

 ment of the soil. 



69 Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 325. 



70 See Mr William Smith's Memoir on the Strata of England ; and Rudge's 

 Gloucestershire p. 1 5. 



71 Dumbartonshire Report, p. 7. 72 Berkshire Report, p. 19. 



73 Kent Report, p. 1 7. 



74 Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. iii. p. 255. 



75 Cornwall Report, p. 9. 76 Hertfordshire Report, p. 12. 



77 Brown's Treatise on Rural Affairs, vol. i. p. 81. 



78 Derbyshire Report, p. 303. 



79 An eminent agriculturist, J. C. Curwen, Esq. of Workington-Hall, in 

 Cumberland, raised both turnips and potatoes on a clayey soil ; but he spared 

 no pains or expense in their cultivation. They were grown in drills, the 

 ploughing was deep, and the manure abundant. In some parts of England, 

 cabbages also are grown on clayey soils. 



80 The Swedish turnips have this great advantage, that they can be trans- 

 planted, and consequently the ground can be previously well worked. Thus 

 also, they can be raised earlier, and sooner taken off; or they may be raised 

 and stacked in damp weather, and carried off when the frost sets in. 



81 Remark by Mr Middleton ; Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 190. 



82 Cheshire Report, p. 170. 



83 See Husbandry of Scotland, 2d edit. vol. i. p. 229. This is the common 

 husbandry on the strong lands of Suffolk. Ditto, vol. ii. Appendix, p. 66. 

 In Ireland, oats thus sown on a retentive clay, will be a fortnight earlier than 

 when sown on a spring ploughing. Comm. from the Rev. Thomas Radcliffe. 



84 Middlesex Report, p. 20. 



85 Marshall's Kent, vol. i. p. 30. 



86 Brown's Treatise on Rural Affairs, vol. i. p. 81 and 100; Husbandry of 

 Scotland, vol. i. p. 239, where the subject of fallowing is discussed at large. 

 Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 102. Dr Coventry contends, " that there are 

 certain soils and situations, where summer-fallowing cannot be advantageously 

 relinquished, for any other process of tillage whatsoever." Discourses on 

 Agriculture, p. 70. See also the Staffordshire Report, p. 50, where the practice 

 of fallowing strong lands is ably defended. 



87 General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 389 ; Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. 

 p. 396. 



88 Leicestershire Report, p. 3. 



89 See " Essay on the Management of Fen Land," by John Wing, Esq. of 

 Thorney Abbey, late agent to the Duke of Bedford. Nothing could be more 

 advisable than to introduce the fen husbandry, described in that work, into the 

 peat-bogs of Ireland and Scotland. 



90 Dumbartonshire Report, p. 331. See also, Hints on the Agricultural 

 State of the Netherlands, Appendix, No. 7, p. 18. This seems to be a most 

 extraordinary circumstance, but the facts stated in the text are undoubted. 



