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the other for winter forage for his cow. Communication from the Rev. Thomas 

 Radcliffe. 



53 Others recommend, as a better system, constantly to mow one half of 

 the land, and to pasture the other, as grass is most productive, when it is uni- 

 formly treated according to the same system. Communication to the Board of 

 Agriculture, vol. iii. p. 191. 



54 Kent Report, p. 1 94. 55 Holt's Lancashire, p. 1 85. 



56 West Riding Report, p. 204. 



57 Donaldson's Modern Agriculture, vol. i. p. 135. 



58 Suffolk Report, p. 223, note. 



59 General Report of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 247. 



60 Kent Report, p. 194. 



61 Holt's Lancashire, p. 183; Staffordshire Report, p. 158. This objec- 

 tion may be urged in the case of manufacturers, but is certainly not so appli- 

 cable to those who are employed in agriculture. Remark by Edward Jiur- 

 roughs, Esq. 



62 Middlesex Report, p. 380. 



63 Mr Dudgeon of Prora's Statement ; General Report of Scotland, vol. iii. 

 p. 347, note. 



64 In Herefordshire, labourers have worked in harvest fifteen hours a-day ; 

 Report* p. 158. 



65 Communication from John Middleton, Esq. 



66 General Report of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 248, note. 



67 Remark by Edward Burroughs, Esq. 



68 Middlesex Report, p. 382. 



69 General Report of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 546. 



70 It is believed, that, in point of nourishment, one peck of oatmeal, weigh- 

 ing 8 albs, avoirdupois, will go as far in supporting a family, as two pecks or 

 56 Ibs. of potatoes. The peck of oatmeal is not half the price of a peck of 

 wheat. The weight of the latter is from 1 4 Ibs. to J 5 Ibs. 



7 1 This was ascertained by a respectable magistrate, Sir George O. Paul, 

 Bart., on the most careful inquiry. See his letter addressed to Sir John Sin- 

 clair, written an. 1796, p. 7. 



72 Staffordshire Report, p. 158. 



73 General Report of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 262. The wages of hinds, or 

 married ploughmen, have greatly increased. In 1792, they only received thir- 

 teen bolls of grain, but it has since been augmented to seventeen bolls, or at 

 the rate of thirty per cent. 



74 Bedfordshire Report, p. 415. 



75 Dorset Report, p. 439; Devon, p. 365; and Cornwall, p. J59. In 

 Dorset, malt and hops are given to the cottagers, to brew ale for the use of 

 their families, in hay time and harvest. 



76 Lincolnshire Report, p. 445, note. 



77 Wilts Report, p. 212. 



* 78 The various particulars connected with the management of live stock, 

 are probably still more numerous than those which belong to the raising of the 

 several crops, and the cultivation of the different kinds of land under the care 

 of husbandmen, (Coventry's Discourses, p. 134), and would consequently re- 

 quire a more extensive inquiry. 



79 In regard to small-sized sheep, see Dr Parry's Essay on the Merino 

 sheep ; Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. v. p. 460. By 

 breeding small sheep instead of large ones, the number was increased on the 

 ground of a farmer who tried the experiment, from 660* to 890 ewes and lambs, 

 and the profit from L. 450 to above L.724 ; Ditto, p. 461 . They should not, 

 however, be under their pasture, nor of a small sort, on rich land. 



80 The marbling of meat must in a great measure depend on the age of the 

 animal. When full grown, the Highland slots have been fed to perfection 

 in Norfolk, in even eight months. It is said that the dairy breeds, more es^ 

 pecially the Ayrshire, are more apt to be marbled, than any other sort. 



