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Something may be ufefully fpared from the tables of the’ rich} as well as thofe of perfons 
in more homble Gearon of life, by judicious and proper management, in which their at- 
‘tention fhould be particularly directed to the afe of rice and’ millet in puddings, dnd that of 
Scotch barley ; 3 baling peas, potatoes, cavrots, and other nutritious vegetable fubftances, in the 
"preparing of foups, ilge economy being likewife had in the animal matters, that may be em- 
ployed ror fuch wholefome articles of food. 
Oat-meal may alfo be made ufe of, where it can be had at Men Tae ie rate, in the mak- 
‘Ing_of porridge being equally palatable and wholefome. As a food for children, when boiled 
with milk, it is excellent. . Apples, of which, in fome diftricts, ‘there are laree quantities, 
may be advantageoufly employed in various ways of cocking. 
By thefe means, and by guarding as much as poffible again the ‘idle and inconfiderate 
wafte of fervants, much may be done to prevent an advance in the price of grain; which, 
though it muft, in*many fituations, have been, from the ftate = the ee gotten in with 
difficulty, and in bad condition, is probably, on the whole, no a: greatly deticient as many 
may fuppofée. A middling, or even a leis than middling; crop, W hy trict ccon vomy, will go 
a great. way, provided that the mifchievous confequences of sie and the bad effects of 
laying in flores, in however {mall quantities it may be done, are cautioufly guarded againft. 
On thefe grounds the entering into any public regulations or ftipulations w ould be highly 
injurious and improper. 
Thofe who are fo well informed on this fubject as to know the grect effects that either an 
under or over proportion, even in the Sige tof degree, has on the markets, will readily per- 
ceive the vaft advantages that may be derived from the adoption of fuch means as are here 
recommended, every one having it, in fome meaiure, w ian his vower to lefien the incon 
veniences of the fearcity, ; : 

Mifcellanesus Hints relative tothe Improvement of Acriculture, to be 
eccafionally continued. 
OTHING is of greater Imrortance in the management of arable land than the difcovery of 
fuch methods of cropping, as preclude the neceflity of having recourfe to the fy ftern of fumm= 
mer fallowing. In‘this view, experiment has amply fhewn that on ftrong tenacious foils, 
where there is a good deal of moifture, the cultivation of beans, as a preparation for wheat, 
miay be practifed with the beft fuccefs: In alternating thefe crops it will be neceffary for 
the ground to have a flight drefling of manure every two or three years; ten or fifteen loads 
to Ehe acre will be fufficient for the purpofe. In {owing beans after this proportion of ma- 
nure bas been employed, it has not been found from experience that any inconvenience has 
“arifen from the beans running too much into height, and thereby being rendered weak in he 
item, and not well podded. Faéts likewife thew that thefe crops may be cultivated alter= 
nately in this manner for any length of time, without the leaft deterioration of the quality 
‘of fuch lands. 
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In cropping with wheat after clover, or other green produéts, feveral circumfances fhould 
‘be more particularly attended to than they would feem to be at.prefent. In the ploughing 
down of {uch green crops, care-fhould not enly be taken that the whole of the green matter 
‘be turned in, but that fuch a feafon be chofen for the bufinefs as may have a tendency by 
s drynefs and warmth to promote the putrefactive fermentation of the green vegetables. 
he common praétices of ploughing flightly, and in wet, damp, weather, are highly impro- 
per and difadvantageous. It is probable, likewife, that the putrefactive procefs might be 
confiderably accelerated by a flight application of time in fuch iaftances. 
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Where corn is fown on poor light foils, fuch as blowing fands, it is an excellent praétice, 
though but little attended to, to fold fheep upon it fome days after the grain has been put 
into the ground, as, by this means the loofe particles of fuch foils are € preiled to the roots, 
and the growth of the crop greatly promoted. 

Tr has been fhewn by an ingehious agriculturiit, that there are many varieties of fheep with 
“which weare little a acquainted, and that they are not invariably wool-bearing animals. Re 
has alfo difcovered a fact of confiderabie pra ctical utility, im regarj to the cutting of ,their 
‘wool 3 which i iS; that the fhearing of wool-bearing fheep, is not a bufinefs that depends folely 
on the will of the owner, but which mu be regulated | by the condition or ftate of the fleece. 
For as the wool of thefe es Hs) found to lected 4 from hd fki ncarly all at one time 5. and 
if not then fhorn, foon to fall off-in large quantities, the young wool having, previouf y 
grown up to fome fengihe if che operation of fhearing be therefore had recourfe to, too foon 
before the young wool has begun to grow, it cannot be accomplifhed with facility ; and the 
body of the animal‘is left too eae an¢if it be too long protracted, the young-wool Js toe 
much advanced, and the operation greatly cee ae the choaking of the’ fhears, Muth 
“ Injury is not only by this.means alio dene to the wool, but great lofs fuftained by ¢ che cueing 
of eve which is Youngs 
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