62 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



Exclufive of thefe helps from the vetch, a few- 

 acres of potatoes, and the drum-headed cabbage, 

 are greatly worth a farmer's attention ; for they 

 are excellent food for milch cows, and anfwer well, 

 and ought to be cultivated much more than they 

 are, as there is but a very fmall quantity planted 

 in this county. Carrots are likewife of great value 

 to a farmer, and ought to be grown in greater 

 plenty than they are. A few acres of lucerne, 

 when a good plant can be got, and it be kept clean, 

 is likewife a wonderful help. 



Buck-wheat claffes, more than any thing, with 

 the irregular crops; though it is not fown fo often 

 as it was formerly. When it is fown, it is moftly 

 introduced after the barley that follows the wheat, 

 and is frequently fucceeded by wheat; but this is 

 reckoned bad hufbandry, and ought not to be al- 

 lowed, unlefs it be ploughed under for manure, or 

 unlefs the wheat flubble which follows it, be tur- 

 niped. — The beft mode of introducing it, is after 

 wheat, inflead of barley, when it may be houfed 

 as a crop, and then to turnip the buck flubble. 

 This lad is good hufbandry, as it does no fort of 

 harm to the land, and is an' excellent forerunner to 

 tuvnips, which generally grow kindly after it, and, 

 this way, the land is not at all put out of courfe. 



Peafe are generally fown upon land coining on 

 for a fecond year's lay ; beans and hops are but 



little 



