NOTES. t>y 



cut in the beginning of May, when the cattle are very fond of it, as other green 

 crops are so scarce. (Ditto, p. 58). After a crop of cole-seed, or hemp, spurrey, 

 carrots,, or turnips are grown, and after wheat, a crop of carrots, sown with the 

 wheat, or spurrey, or turnips sown after the crop is reaped. Carrots are also 

 sown with rye, or turnip, or spurrey, after the crop is cut down. It is indispen- 

 sable to vary the immediate crops, and never to sow the same for two years in 

 succession. ( Vanderstraeteri' s Improved Husbandry, p. 42). The moist cli- 

 mate, and mild winters of England and Ireland, are favourable to the plan of 

 double crops. 



83 Communication from Edward Burroughs, Esq. 



985 Communication from Mr Church of Hitchill ; Husbandry of Scotland, 



Zfr / vol. i. p. 327. This idea was first suggested by Mr George Syme at Rcdkirk, 

 near Annan. 



^^Communication from Mr Hunter of Tynefield ; Husbandry of Scotland, 

 vol. ii. Appendix, p. 52. This opinion is strongly confirmed by the authority 

 "" of Mr Brown of Markle, who has, for several years, followed the practice re- 

 commended by Mr Hunter, with equal success. 



SS3- Where this plan is tried, the seed wheat ought to be brought from Ber- 

 wickshire, or the Lothians, accustomed to that mode of culture. A greater 

 quantity of seed should be used, than if sown in the autumn or winter months. 

 SIS&A. skilful farmer cultivates his wheat land in October ; his beans in Ja- 

 nuary ; his oats in March ; his barley in April and May ; and his turnips in 

 June or July ; all with the same cattle. Gentleman Farmer, p. 356. 

 -~ 2HT Mr Andrew of Tillilumb, near Perth, finds, that if clover be cultivated 

 only once in eight years, the produce is not only nearly double, but that the suc- 

 ceeding crop of oats is better, by eight bushels per acre. 



f~*~ 288 Middlesex Report, p. 1 96. For that purpose, tares and turnips, to suc- 

 ceed each other in the same year, are pre-eminent. 



289 General Report of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 224. The advantages of this 

 system are thus ably enforced by the intelligent Dr Coventry. By selecting the 

 proper species of plants for culture, and pursuing a proper succession, and re- 

 gular order in raising them, land may be kept in a constant state of fertility. 

 In this way cultivators, in common situations, who may not have an extraneous 

 supply of manure, are able to sustain, and even to increase the productiveness of 

 their arable lands ; while at the same time, the fullest effect is given to the ma- 

 nure, when applied, by the soil being retained in a proper state of texture and 

 cleanness ; some species and proportion of crops, being more deteriorating or 

 hostile to good tilth and perfect cleanness, than others. Coventry' s Discourses, 

 p. 37. 



290 At the Author's particular request, Mr Falla tried an experiment, which 

 has obviated a great difficulty in carrying on the trenching process in strong 

 land, on a great scale. From its compactness and weight, it is difficult to 

 trench clayey soils. It accidentally occurred to me, that this obstacle might be 

 obviated, by employing two labourers, the one following the other. The first 

 going 5 or 6 inches deep, and the second as much more. Mr Falla tried even 

 young women on this plan, and successfully. They used light spades, 9J in- 

 ches long and 8 inches broad, and weighing, with the handle, about 4$ Ibs. 

 avoirdupois. The expense came to L.2 : 4 : 4 per acre ; but, after a little 

 practice, he thought it might be done cheaper. 



2 1 "I 291 Vanderstraeten's Improved Agriculture, p. 80, 82, and 84. 



399 His stock was two cows and two pigs ; one of his cows had a summer's 

 gait for twenty weeks with his landlord. The land was partly ploughed, and 

 partly dug with the spade, cultivated (the ploughing excepted) by the man, his 

 wife, and a girl about twelve years of age, in their spare hours from their daily 

 hired work, seldom a whole day off, except in harvest made the rent in but- 

 ter, besides a little used in the family. The family lived well, and was able to 

 lay out a handsome sum that had been yearly saved to place out two sons, and 

 \tp supply them with clothes, washing, &c. 



