4 ¢ vn > 
’ s r* - 
, - . ’ 
a Lething ton Hiufe. wap leeniaa 
swith thofe of, our ‘commerce, give the 
preference to the. former : Wherever the 
interefts of our. agriculture -clafh with 
agriculture,. .... 
_ _Patronize every: ingenious and diligent 
_ effort to apply the principles of feience 
to the improvement. of rural ceconomy : 
_ ind. endeavour. to provide manuals of 
_ agricultural rules and principles, fuf- 
ficiently fimple.-and popular, fuch as 
_ may make every farmer at once an able 
~ philofopher, and a confummate arti in all 
_ that belongs to hutbandry. 
. Let every landholder Jet out his. eftate 
under good improving leafes: And let 
him fet himielf an example of prudent 
_thofe of our manufactures » preter thofe of 
A, a 
‘endeavours to iniprove foine few acrés of 
fiach grounds, fach as may be worthy of 
the ‘imitation of his tenants. Let the 
landlord’s improvements be fo conduéted, 
that their profitablenefs may be undeéni- 
“ably evinced to the farmers whom he 
wifhes to imitate them. 
Follow nature, or even lead her; but 
attempt not to drive or drag her. Above 
all, avoid thofe hafty. projects which tend 
to bring alf improversent into difgrace. 
It is hardly to be conceived, by thofe 
wo have not obferved, how much our 
wafle lends have been brought “under 
culture, fince the year 1794. 
Iam, Sir, your's, | 
Dumfries, March 5, 1793. AGRICOLA. 
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LETHINGTON HOUSE. 











remarkable edifice ftands. near 
Haddington in Eaft Lothian. 
It was the chief refidence of the Mait- 
lands, anceftors of the Lauderdale family. 
Sir Richard Maitland, the poet, and his 
fons, the chancellor, and the much cele- 
brated fecretary of ftate in Mary’s reign, 
are names known to moft of our readers. . 
This chateau has had the fortune to 
be twice defcribed in verfe. In the 
oy 
see dg 
+ - To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
.- .peiRe A ee 
h crnhiye the query) in ‘the 
J Monthly Magazine tor September, 
concerning the beft method of fowing Tand 
with grafs feeds, without a crop of corn ; 
-and.alio the anfwers. in that: for the fuc- 
ceeding month; the latter appeared to me 
to come frém perfons who ~ were undc- 
jaainted with the fuperior advantages at- 
‘tending that mode of culture, which I 
Montu. Mac. No. xxx, 






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} AS eae A ¥: 
<¢ Maitland Poems, vol. iie p. 253, there 
-is a Scottifh poem.on this fubjeét, not a 
little interefting, as obferving the man- 
ners and amufements of the time. ‘The 
Editor obferves, p..428, that the Liding- 
ton apple takes its name from this lioule. 
And-among the poems of Thomas Mait- 
land, in the ‘* Delicig Poctarum Scotarum,” 
tom, ii. p. 167, is now-ftyled Doeus 
Lediniona, to yyaesis 
Pras: 

have practifed for feveral years, and “of 
which [have had occafion to obferve the 
refult in the prattice of others ;' I hope I 
fhall, therefore, be excufed for offering my 
opinion upon it. Rare 
The follows éxtratt ‘is taken “from 
the’ agricultural report of ‘the north iid- 
ine of Yorkfhire. 
4 Several farmers in this country fow 
their grafs feeds with ‘the firft crop after 
a fallow or turnips; anda few fow them 
‘upon a ipring fallow without corn, upon 
Noa ftrong”. 
