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they have more leisure at that period of the year. This practice is justly repro- 

 bated by the intelligent Dr Fcnwick. While the frost lasts, the land can de- 

 rive no advantage from the manure, and when a thaw supervenes, it is evident 

 that the wash from melting snow, or from the rains which generally fall in 

 such weather, must deprive the mass of every part that is soluble : the ground, 

 in the mean time, retains the frost for many days, and is therefore incapable of 

 absorbing the wet, which falls upon its surface ; and even when the influence 

 of the milder air has reached it, can imbibe but little, being in general pre- 

 viously filled with water, and the quantity which flows over it, being too great 

 for the soil, under any circumstances, to drink up. Dr Feuwick''s Essays. 

 p. 25. 



525 See Greenall's Observations on Composts; Comm. vol. iii. p. 290; 

 also Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 184. 



524 Those who apply putrescent manures, with the best effect, prefer mo- 

 derately moist and warm weather, that the dung may be quickly covered. 

 Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 185. 



525 Chap. III. Sect. 7. 



526 Young's Calendar, p. 221. 



527 Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 196. 



328 Communication from John Middleton, Esq. 



529 Lincoln Report, p. 222. Any patches of coarse grass may be removed 

 by the scythe. 



530 Communication from Mr Holdich. 



331 Essay by Charles Goring, Esq. ; Communications to the Board, vol. iii. 

 p. 191. This rule ought probably to be adopted with respect to the pastures 

 of Rutlandshire, let to cottagers for keeping their cows, see Chap. II. Sect. 5, 

 p. 86. 



552 Communication from Edward Burroughs, Esq. 



355 See the evidence of this fact, on the authority of Mr Brown of Markle 

 and Mr Hume of East-Barns. Husbandry of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 15 ; also 

 Young's Calendar, p. 557. This is confirmed by the experience of Mr John 

 Webb. Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 158. 



554 Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 494. 



335 Middlesex Report, p. 219. 



536 This plan has been tried in Norfolk, with very great success. Meadows 

 have there been done over with sand, by which the quantity and the quality of 

 the grass were greatly improved ; whereas a portion of the same meadow, left 

 in its former state, was quite worthless. 



357 In Derbyshire, as a protection of stock from inundations, it is not un- 

 common to raise mounds of earth in each meadow, two or three yards high, for 

 the cattle to retire to, in case of a sudden flood. Report, vol. ii. p. 176 ; they 

 are called " safety-mounds." 



338 Middlesex Report, p. 224. 



339 Hay is not usually sweated, nor allowed to heat in Scotland ; and when 

 hay happens to fall into that state, it is frequently used as litter, or in packing 

 stone-ware, &c. 



540 General Report of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 15. 



341 Inverness Report, p. 195. 



342 Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. vi. p. 248. Parish of Kintail. 



543 Suffolk Report, p. 215. Young's Calendar, p. 208. Derbyshire Re- 

 port, vol. ii. p. 183. 



544 South Wales Report, vol. i. p. 545- It is said that, by this practice, 

 the stock are kept in good condition, and expense is saved. 



345 It was invented by Mr Whit worth of Acre House, Lincolnshire. Mr 

 John Bloomfield of Warham, a tenant of Mr Coke's, has the credit of having 

 first carried this novel practice, to any considerable extent. It is fully described 

 in the Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis. Appendix, No. I. p. 415. 



54t> The grass of orchards would probably be well calculated for the purpose. 



347 See Mr Blaikie's valuable tract, on the Conversion of Arable Land into 



