44 TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, &c. 



SECTION VIII. 



Modes proposed to the Landholders for averting the Evils incident to 



Seasons of Drought. 



Although I have frequently endeavoured to draw the attention 

 of breeders of cattle here to their own interests, and have strongly 

 urged them to imitate the practice of the most enlightened agri- 

 culturists, by raising green crops of corn, mangel wurzel, turnips, 

 potatoes, &c. for the purpose of preserving the lives of poor half- 

 starved beasts, at the time the grass lands are burned up, or when 

 the rains set in — yet, in case some of them, who have never wit- 

 nessed any other management than that which has ever prevailed 

 here, should consider such things as mere effusions of imagina- 

 tion or fancy, I must therefore request their attention to the fol- 

 lowing extract from the New Farmer's Calendar.* 



The testimony of an experienced " farmer and breeder," as 

 well as an able writer upon these subjects, will shew that my 

 sentiments are not singular ; and that the practice I recommend 

 has long been adopted, with complete success, both on the Con- 

 tinent of Europe, and in the United Kingdoms. I should hope 

 that such testimony, added to the facts and proofs I have adduced 

 (" that crops of corn are intinitely heavier, and far more certain, 

 " than the produce of even the best grass lands") will afford to 

 every unprejudiced mind the most unerring conviction that the 

 proposed new system would be extremely advantageous ; and 

 that it is even more peculiarly suited to the circumstances of 



* Oa the green and root crops, for " the support of cattle-" — See New Farmer's Ca- 

 lendar, page 382. 



