CHAPTER VIL 
APvABLE LAND- 
The agriculture and cultivation of this county is 
more miscellaneous, and less subject to characteristic 
system, than that of most other counties ; the soil ge- 
nerally rich and fertile, answers well either to a general 
culture, to a more operose culture, or to grazing; and 
any thing, or every thing succeeds that is conducted 
with skill and industry. Hence grain and pulse, hops, 
and the various kinds of fruit, garden herbs, and me¬ 
dical plants, the fatting of sheep and cattle, and the 
dairy, have all been cultivated with success, and each 
one succeeds in that course of management to which 
his taste and inclination leads. 
SECT. I.—TILLAGE. 
The well managed summer fallows have four plough* 
mgs, whether for Avheat, barley, or turnips. <c Some 
farmers put the dung on their fallows about Midsum* 
mer, and plough it in at the second ploughing, others 
upon the barley stubble for beans, &c.; the last practice 
1 think the best.”— Mr. Oldacre. 
In the land adapted for turnips, the wheat stubbles 
are often ploughed up in September and sown with 
