AGRICULTURAL A.YD MISCELLANE- 

 OUS RECEIPTS. 



OF GARDENS. 



A kitchen garden, well stored with vegetables, 

 IS highly important to the farmer, as the use of 

 these supersede the necessity of consuming much 

 meat; a practice equally consistent with economy 

 and good health. When we percieve that the food 

 of the cottagers of Ireland, is principally milk and 

 potatoes; that these are a race of people which 

 ire healthy, rohust, well-made, with strong, quick, 

 ind ardent powers of mind; and when we per- 

 ceive that those savage nations which, for want 

 of other food, are obliged to subsist entirel^*^ on 

 fish or other meat, are generally the most stupid, 

 squalid, and ill-made; we certainly cannot draw 

 conelusions in favor of eating great quantities of 

 flesh. 



It is advisable to have a close high fence round 

 your kitchen and fruit-gardens. This, in the first 

 place, renders every thing within it secure from 

 pillagers; and also serves to keep out fowls. 

 Another benefit, consists in keeping off the strong 

 cold winds of the Spring, which are very injurious 

 to the young plants, and also to the fruit, which is 

 then about putting ibrth. 



Dung that is old, and destitute of the seeds of 



