1797-] Replies to Agricultural Query....Piedmont. 355 
as the query of your correfpondent, Mr. 
HoRwNECK, is of fome importance, you 
may not perhaps think me intrufive in 
giving my opinion on the fubjeéct, not 
only in anfwer to his enquiry, but on 
laying down land in general. 
I muft, in the firft place, infift upon 
it, that land cannot be in too good a con- 
dition to be converted into pafture. I- 
well know that, with many farmers, it 
is the practice to lay down eld worn- 
out arable land, only by way of reftora- 
tive ; but this is a practice which cannot 
be too much reprobated. 
On the foil mentioned by Mr. H. I 
fhould imagine the following to be the 
moft probable means of infuring a good 
plant of feeds :-—Let the land have a com- 
plete tillage and folding, as if meant for 
barley 3 about the end ofjbarley-fowing, 
it ought to be well harrowed, which will 
encourage the growth of weeds, and again 
in May. About the beginning of June, 
if the weather fhould come favourable, 
caft the lands down, fo that they lie near- 
ly flat; and, if neceffary, by repeated har- 
_ rowing and rolling, get it as fine as pof- 
fible; then fow it with the following 
feeds : two bufhels of the beft hay-feeds, 
twelve’ pounds of white Dutch clover, 
three pounds of trefoil, three pounds of. 
-burnet, and three pounds of the curled 
parfley. If ic be poffible toobrain picked 
grafs-feeds (which I believe at prefent 
not to be the cafe, but which, in the 
' courfe of thrée or four years, I have good 
reafon to fay, may be had) I would, on 
every account, fubftitute them in lieu of 
the hay-feeds, by which means you fe- 
cure a crop ef fuch grats only, as ttock of 
all kinds are the moft fond of. Great 
care muft be taken to keep the land clean 
by repeatedly weeding. About the be- 
ginning of September, it will bear ftock- 
ing for a fhort time by fheep; after 
which periodit ought to be fhut up, rill 
the enfiling {pring, when the benefit will 
Be great, juft after the turnips are gone ; 
and throughout the fummer the quantity 
of ftock, land fo laid down will carry, 1s 
prodigious. It is of benefit ina year or two, 
todre{s the land with good cinder-duft, 
which will much promote the growth of 
the clover and the common wild fuckling. 
_. This, fir, is the plan I would purfue, 
_ were I to lay down land without a corn- 
_ ¢rop: but I think, in general, it is bett 
to {ow the land with barley ; as, in the 
_ firft place, if the land is in good heart, 
-as it ought to be, it may very well afford 
it; and fecondly, if the fummer fhould 
Prove, unkindly, the barley will greatly 
{ MontuHiy Mac. XXIV. 
help the feeds by the fhelter it will af- 
ford. -I mut add, that I would on no 
account fow rye-grafs, e(pecially on the 
land alluded to. Iam, fir, 
Your obedient humble fervant, 
Bedford, O8. 20, 1797+ A. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, Crean 
O Mr. HorNECK’s enquiry in your 
-laft month’s Number, I fhould aniwer, 
that it does not appear to me of any con- 
fequence toa crop of grafs, whether the 
feeds be fown with corn or not, at leaft 
with regard to the time of fowing ; and 
lands are here univerfally laid down with 
grafs in the fpring. Mr. Horneck. can- 
not do better than to take nature for his 
guide ; let him obferve when the grafles 
he means tofow, make their firft {pring- 
fhoots on*his lands, and thenee he may 
eafily judge of the proper time to fow 
them. The land to be laid down in this 
manner ought tobe very clean, 
Pam it, 
Your obedient fervant, 
Of. 10. A NorFroLk FARMER. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
PERHAES it is not the leaft among 
the numerous calamities of war, that 
the progrefs of {cience is impeded, and 
thofe elegant refinements of the mindy 
which tend to dignify human nature, and 
foften the ferocity of man, by introducing 
him tv the acquaintance of the mufes, are 
generally left to droop and lJanguifh for 
for want of perfonal fecurity and public 
encouragement. I was led into this 
train of thought by contemplating the 
prefent political ftate of Italy, once not 
lefs celebrated as the feat of learning 
than of power. As you have ina former 
Number, prefented your readers with a 
very interefting fketch of the general 
‘ftate of hiterature in that country, I have 
been induced to colleé& the following 
particulars relative to that of Piedmont, 
or of the dominions of his Sardintan ma- 
jefty, which, I believe, are at prefent 
wholly unknown in England. 
London, Wour’s, ~ 
OF. 35° 79%. EXxPLORATOR. 
MATHEMATICS. 
Tue Piedmontefe cherifh with ex. 
ultation, the remembrance that La 
GRANGE is their countryman, His fa~ 
ther had deftined him for the. profeffion 
of the law, but the irrefiftible force of 
true genius impetled himto thofe ftudies 
which he has cultivated with fo much 
Aaa fuccefs, 





