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slightest injury arising from it, the rooting is effectually prevented* 
mischief of too many pursuits.— Some of the most intelligent 
men in the country admit and lament the foulness of the Corn land, 
but allege the quantity of work to be done, and the scarcity of hands 
as a reason. Here are four harvests the Hay, the Corn, the 
Hop, and the Cider. The Herefordshire farmers have so much 
business between cider, hops, corn, and fattening cattle, that a part 
must he, and always is neglected. Many farmers consider cider 
making as an intrusion on operations of greater importance, and 
think one half of the time wasted in making it, and the other half 
in drinking it. 
Note .—There is a great deal in this; the writer knows a farm of 
less than two hundred acres in Herefordshire, where the year before 
last twenty two hogsheads of family drink (as it is called,) that is, 
miserably low cider, were consumed in one yeRr. The ill conse¬ 
quences of this system upon the people cannot be described. How 
much better it would have been, if the farmer had been without the 
liquor so wasted, and had been obliged to buy an adequate quantity 
of malt, and to manage the produce with economy. The same may 
be said of hops as grown in that country; they ruin farmers of little 
or no capital, and they prevent the growth ol corn and cattle, by 
taking all the manure off the farm. 
Carrot top Hay. —The tops of a good acre of carrots will pro¬ 
duce four tons of hay, of which all kinds of cattle are very fond, and 
upon which they thrive exceedingly. The tops shoot out very lux¬ 
uriantly, as soon as cut. They are cut with a scythe, and care is 
taken not to injure the crowns of the plants by cutting too close. 
The root will increase in weight, as in parsnips, if so cut. 
Liquid Manure. —In a country where there are so many cattle, 
it is wonderful there are no reservoirs for the urine. It is well known 
that cattle evacuate more by urine that by dung, and it is allowed 
that it is the best of manures. 
Dutch Willow. Mr. Bakewell, the great breeder, has several 
small plantations of Dutch willow in different parts of his estate, 
one of which he cuts annually at seven years growth. They run 
very long, and some of them are large, and are split and used for 
posts, gates, &c, for which they are very excellent. He uses no other 
kind of wood for these purposes. Mr. Lynes plants Ash and Dutch 
willow in low swampy ground, which cannot be well drained. They 
are on beds twelve feet wide, two rows on a bed, or each plant six 
feet apart every way. The alleys are dry between the beds, and die 
contents thrown on them ; they are cut once in fifteen vears. 
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