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and the 



like, 

 it; 



In the ftate of heibage, 



but it is from Hobfon's 



convinced him. 



carrota, potatoes, 



:^^l, ': X^.ruiJ:'ha;c c;nv.nced him. Its fitnOs 



for pUielunz into the land is undoubted on accoanl bo h of 



» btdk and fucculcnce. The juke of u, however, .s watery, 



and ar c.^uj;h from nutntious. Hogs, he has found from 



num ruu trials, fatten neither fo fall w.th n, nor >s the fl^fl. 



vhicU has been fatted upon corn. He has 



" ■ rkmg horles 



no 



t;cl;Tina^"q::;intities ground, .^h hard-working ho 

 both draught and faddle, but the difference "f P"" b) 



raeans compenfated for its inferiority to oats and beans ; and 

 Ss it i.d not always agree with them as he fomet.mes 

 fa cied .t had a kind of ilupefy.ng effcd. In nutnmcnt 

 however, he confeiTes, that .t is fupenor to carrots for 

 working-horfes. He tried it with a llock of feveral hundred 

 head ofpouUry ; and u was in the fan.e degree 'nf-^no^f S 

 in the fattenu,g ar.d laying Hock. He does not 1>"^ that .t 

 U very highly prized even in the d.l dlery." In fine, he 

 concludes, that " buck-wheat is valuable upon land ha will 

 crow nothing elfe, and where it is produced with fmall ex- 

 t.r.'-e ; and that when ready, its beft application is to the 

 market." The experience of other praitical farmers, ho 



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almoll every fpecies of weeds ; an excellency peculiar to this 

 crop. The method of plougliing buck under, and the after- 

 management of buck-fallows, are nearly as for wheat. The 

 harvcil-proccfs is hke that of barley, as is that of its far- 

 mery and inana;^ement ; except that the ftraw being fit for 

 litter only, and the grain being wanted for the fattening of 

 pigs in autumn and the beginning of winter, it is frequently 

 threlhed out immediately after harveft, before the live Hock 

 are taken into the farm-yard." 



Mr. Mofely of Suffolk cultivated this crop after tares, 

 finding it highly advantageous as a preparation for wheat, 

 by preferving the land, after that crop had been removed, 

 from the diiVipating effefts of the fun till t'ae period of the 

 wheat being fown. This is a combination of crops by which 

 much is effefted in the opinion of Mr. Young ; " a coat of 

 m.anure is gained at no expence, the year carried through 

 from Michaelmas to Michaelmas, and three crop;, put in on 

 three ploughings, viz. tares, buck-wheat, and wheat." It 

 is not, he fays, eafy to form a more complete fyftem. 



It is recommended in the firll volume of the Annals of 

 Agriculture, in feeding liorfes, to try the efficacy of buck 

 wheat mixed with bran, chaff, or grains, either in the whole, 



ever, 

 grain 



m 



CO 



d 



w- 

 affords a more frvrurable opiiiion oTthe utiUty of this or broken in a mill ; as a bufhel of it, which goes further 

 anoros a uiu't "• " r ^j^^^ ^^^ budiels of oats, even with beans, mixed with at 



It has been faid, the fame writer further obferves. that leaft four times as much bran, will be full feed for any horfe 

 this era nbein. black cannot be difcoloured by wet ; which a week, and much lefs hay will do. It is alo further re- 

 bv^no means% pradical remark, fince its d.fcolour confil^s marked that in fattening hogs eight bufhels of buck-wheat 

 the b^s of its fine black ; befide which, the grain feels meal .vill go as far as twelve bufhels of barley-meal In the 

 tnc lois oi . . , , , ^j^^ ^^j^^ ^^ feeding of poultry and pigeons it is likewife highly ufeful 



oot. To thofe and advantageous, as they eat it with great avidity, and 

 ds thrive well upon it. 



"or BUCOLICA, is ufed by fome for the art of managing, 

 feeding, and breeding cattle. 



BUCOLICS, in Atident Poetry, PaJloraU ; a kind of 

 poems relating to fliepherds and their flocks. The word is 

 derived from /?*>;, and xoaov, cibus, meal ; hence BiiJioXiu, to 



old and damp, to the great injury of the fam 

 „iv the only ufe for the haulm is under foe 

 who expect to get money by buck-wheat, he recommenc 

 early fowing, and even to allow it the manure neceliary U 

 a following wheat crop ; he fhould think, by fuch manage- 

 ment, five, perhaps ten quarters might be obtained from an 

 acre of good land, which would remain in excellent order tor 

 wheat. This neceflanly fuppofes land in no want of late 



forins-tillasie. In this cafe, Ihould a fufpiclon be entertained feed cattle, and /Sax-o^o;, luhdcus, a herd/man. 

 K .o o . . V ..„ 1 i.„ ;*. ,^;.rl,i- hio fKinVc Piiu'ol-r" nnctrv is tVip moil anrietit of h11 t 



of the crop running too much to haulm, it might, he thinks, 

 be advantageoufly rowed and hoed. 



In the " Rural Economy of Norfolk," Mr. Marfhall re- 

 marks, that " buck-wheat is propagated as grain, and as a 

 manure ; and that, as the main intention of its propagation, 

 whether as a crop or as a melioration of the foil, is the lame, 

 namely, the cleanfing of foul land, it may be convenient to 

 keep the two objefls in nearly the fame point of view. With 

 refped to fpecies there is only one ; this grain having not 

 yet, he beheves, run into any varieties fufficieiuly Rriking to 

 have ditlinguidiing names appropriated to them. It is fown 

 almofl indil'crimiuattly on all fpecies of foils ; he, however, 

 thinks that light poor land has the preference ; it is, fays 

 he, to this fpecies of foil that buck feems moll efpecially 

 adapted. It likewife fucceeds every fpecies of crop ; the 

 ftate of the foil as to foulnefs ar.d poverty being generally 

 more attended to than either the nature of the foil or 

 the crop it bore laft. The foil procefs depends upon the 

 Hate of the land, and the intention jointly ; if the foil 

 be tolerably clean, and the buck be intended to be ploughed 

 under as manure, it is fown on one ploughing ; but, in ge- 

 neral, the ground is broken, as for barley or peas, to for- 

 ward the fallow, and fecnre the crop. 



The feed-proccfs is the fame for both intentions ; except- 

 ing that, for a crop, the feed is fown firft, namely, immedi- 

 ately after barley-feed ; and that intended to be ploughed 

 under is fown as foon afterwards as the ground is in a ftate 

 fit to receive the feed. It is univerfally fown above-furrow. 

 The quantity of feed, Cx pecks to two bufhels an acre. 



Bucol-c poetry is the moil ancient of all the kinds of poe- 

 try ; and is fuppofcd to have had its origin in Sicily, amidfl 

 the mirth and diverfions of the fliepherds ; and to have been 

 infpired by love and idlenefs : by degrees, their rural gal- 

 lantries were brought under rules, and became an art. The 

 concerns of the flocks, the beauties of nature, and the plea- 

 fures of a country life, were their principal fubjetls. Mof- 

 chus, Bion, and Theocritus, were the mofl agreeable among 

 the ancient bucolic poets. 



Fontenelle obferves, that Theocritus's ftyle is fometimes 

 a httle too bucolic. Some authors attribute the invention 

 of bucolic poetry to a fhepherd called Daphnis ; and others 

 to Bucolins, fon of Laomedon : but this appears all fidlion. 

 Some afcnbe the invention of bucolic poetry to the herdf- 

 men of Laconia, who, not being able to hold the cullom- 

 ary feafl of virgins in honour of Diana Caryatis, by reafon 

 of the war with'Xerxes, iuflituttd /3fa/.o?.i2i7^oi, or bucolic 

 exercifes, in lieu thereof. 



Hence alfo the origin of a fort of poetical champions, 

 called [5t;>.oXix^crA, by the Latins ludiones, who went about 

 the country, contending for the prizes frequently propofed 

 for the conquerors in this kind of combat ; of which rank 

 Daphnis was the moll dillinguiflied. They not only re- 

 hearfed their verfes, but played on a kind oijijlula, or pipe, 

 called yjn'H.v. Seal. Poet. lib. i. cap. 4. Pott. Arch. Hb. ii. 

 cap. 20. Hift. Acad. Infer, torn. iii. p. 123, & iji, ice. 



Bucolic poetry is by fome called AJlral'u; as being fuppofed 

 to have firll commenced among the ancient herdfmen i.i rid- 

 ing a fort of waggons called ajirabes. It is ufually divided 



The growth of buck is fo rapid as to outllrip and fmolher into moiwprofopium, or monologue, wherein only a fingle per- 



7 ion 



