FURZE., 
been ufed to the _ will, the writer obferves, foon teach 
all the reft how to 
And another = cea way of rearing whins, but 
which he has {een practifed, rather than ale age himfelf, 
is this. by means a a dite 
round, i a ban n up on one fide ; if 
» let the “face, of that bank be lined with ie 
ftones, fon bottom to near the top; this lining to flope 
backwards with an angle of about fixty or feventy ae 
rom the Any kind of ftones 
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rae the top the bank fow whin feeds pretty thick, an 
a fev them along the face of the bank. Youn 
plant a ail lies Let them grow for two years, 
cae ‘e ca face of ae bank. ‘cin ng 1s 
very eafy; and as the feeds focn infinuate themfelves 
among the | crannies of the ftones, the whole face of the bank 
becomes a clofe hedge, whofe fhoots {pring up with great 
luxuriance. If another ditch be made on oes other fide of 
pofes of a fence. This will alfo often be the cafe where 
{tones are made ufe of when the foil is of a loofe nature. 
Various sipirapsail have, the writer Ph, prevented 
him from afcert e crop that 
on which 
pone it will, e thin a be ad- 
muft tees accounted even a more valuable crop 
ch After b cut, he alfo remarks that it 
fprings up she following feafon with greater vigour than 
, in this fituation, acquires a degree of health 
and fucculence very different from what it is ever obferved 
e prickles too are fo 
t it without ay bruiing at all : but cattle, 
more te ‘always require it to 
w long crops of ie fort may continue 
over, without wearin ng out, he cannot 
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the beginnin 
ployed about the work of frutification cay, and it is not till 
near Midfummer that the whin begins to push forth its wood-. 
bearing branches, which advance with great luxuriance only 
during the latter part of the feafon, it may happen that if. 
taken to have the grafs that {prings upon the: 
to overtop them, k irely. 
therefore, has a field under this particular ee e 
fays, be careful to advert to this circ nce; or,. if the. c 
eld be ia good heart be will infallbly ca it. The field 
therefore fhould be kept as a pafture. as bare as poffible 
uring the beginning of the ee = the cattle fhould 
only be taken from it when the the whin are dif-. 
covered to begin to ioe ance sees vigour. r this 
nagement, he prefur 
yield full crops : 
tentive, at the begi 
fcythe, as the ftumps 
to b the fcythe when it happens to touch them in any 
: oe part 
has been remarked, in a paper in the ninth volume of 
the pean of Agriculture, that by cutting a part of the 
round down in this way, every third year, very large crops 
may be obtained. It is alfo probable, that the plants may 
continue ae Podge is the proper time to begin mow- 
ing or cutting th They continue to fhoot till Chriftmas, 
and are fit for a until Nea: orfes are faid to eat them 
as readily as they do hay, after they have been chopped with 
a cleaver, and bruifed or pounded by a ou or otherwife, 
oints ¢ 5 and it 
te 
in whichever way emplo 
paly: ae growth of the year fhould be cut for the cattle to 
du 
ne 
It has been ee remarked, by Dr. Anderfon, ie he 
_that deferve the attention of the farmer 
hard labour, and pie eg ala fome gr ain fhould be given 
with it where the attle, he fays, eat it - 
‘aie well when ucreagaly ee “and grow fat upon 
upon turnips; but unlefs it be very well bruifed for 
i they will not eat it freely, and the farmer. will be f. 
appointed in his expeCtations. Cows that are fed upon 
yield nearly as much milk as while fed upon grafs, which is is 
free from any bad tafte ; and the beft winter-made butter he 
ever faw was | obtained from the milk of a cow that was fed 
ine hee es, See mine the fame 
alfo feemed ufeful to horfes labou 
where fuel of any kind is cheap, or upon fuch lands as will 
produce good gra{s, corn, or other crops employed as. the’ 
food. of animals. 
7 was formerly much the practice to fow the feeds of the: 
n furze, in order ta form hedges round the fields; 
and Mice the foils were light, the plants foon became ftrong’~ 
enough for a fence againit cattle: but as thefe hedges are 
at the bottom, in a ver time, and 
oy known byt the 
belt for the purpofe, as it thickens more near. the pee 
and 
