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to market ; and not separately by themselves, which would be to reckon them 

 twice. Seed-corn and manure, also, butter, cheese, bacon, &c. consumed by 

 farmers families, are to be considered, like the soil itself, as necessary adjuncts 

 to cultivation. Implements of husbandry, wear and tear, fences and drainage, 

 are to be deducted in a national view, from the produce of the soil ; so likewise 

 are all expenses in purchased 'manure, excepting when the sale of the straw pays 

 for it. When hay is sold, manure is bought ; and the difference only, in both 

 cases, ought to be carried to the credit of the account. 



222 It would be advisable, when barley and clover are sown and cut together, 

 to bind the sheaves, and to stook the corn for some days, until the bottom of the 

 sheaves are soaked and withered. By this means, the clover will retain its suc- 

 culency, and the straw will imbibe the nutritious properties of the clover. 



223 Both bean and pease straw will give some horses colic pains. Half an 

 ounce, or a table spoonful of laudanum, with^four ounces of castor-oil, or three 

 table spoonfuls of turpentine, will remove the complaint ; to be applied a second 

 time, if the tirst is not effectual. 



224 The haum of white pease is esteemed very proper for sheep on turnips. 

 It prevents scowering, and in that respect contributes to preserve them in good 

 health. In many districts, it is much used for that purpose. Communication 



from John Middleton, Esq. If pease straw has not been well harvested, it ought 

 to be kept till the succeeding season after it was cut. 



225 When tares are permitted to ripen their seed, the weight of the crop is 

 considerably reduced, but its money value is increased. The clean tares are 

 generally from twenty to thirty bushels, but in that state the haum is only from 

 one to two tons per acre. Communication from John Middleton, Esq. 



226 Tares produce but a light return on poor or sandy soils, unless well pre- 

 pared for that crop. -But on loams, or strong clay, they may be sown with one 

 ploughing after wheat, with every prospect of success. In many cases, cattle 

 have preferred the haum of tares, to hay given them after the seed was thrashed 

 out. Remark by Edward Burroughs, Esq. 



227 Middlesex Report. 



228 It is stated in Young's Essex, that sheep are fonder of pease straw than 

 of hay. 



229 Remark by Edward Burroughs, Esq. Hogs are likewise very fond of 

 pease straw. 



230 Cours Complet d' Agriculture, par Rozier. Vide Paille. 



231 When such mixtures of dry straw, and green clover, are properly made 

 up, and of sound materials, they may be kept as stores, to supply fodder in years 

 when the crop fails. What is stored up in harvest, may either be eaten next 

 winter, and a new store formed to meet a scarcity : or even the former mixture, 

 if not needed, may be renovated by a farther mixture of clover, and in that way 

 it may be preserved in good condition for several years. 



232 It is found by experience, that store stock do very well upon straw, till 

 some time after Candlemas ; but when the days get longer, and drying winds 

 come on, they should have either succulent food, in small quantities, or a little 

 hay, though of inferior quality. 



233 Middlesex Report, p. 220. This may be owing to the wheat sown early 

 being more ripe. 



234 Dickson's Husbandry of the Ancients, vol. ii. p. 409. 



235 Middlesex Report, p. 1 75. 



23G Dickson's Husbandry of the Ancients, vol. ii. p. 408. 



237 Middlesex Report, p. 328. 



238 Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 186; and vol. iii. p, 23. 



239 This is according to the practice of the farmers in the Lothians, In 

 some districts of England, they maintain, that a ton of straw, when converted 

 into dung, would be reduced to half a ton in weight. But it is evident, that 

 straw mixed with the dung, and saturated with the urine of cattle, must be much 

 heavier than in its dry state. 



