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land which was fo much impoverifhed by ftagnant water, and fo much inundated by land-fprings, as not to reproduce the feed ufed upon it, his crops have been abun- dant; and while Mr. Salter reaps the benefit of his judicious exertions, he may very fairly be regarded as a public benefactor. He may almoft be confidered as producing a new creation around him, and fhould be held up, by every friend to agricultural

‘improvement, to the admiration and tle imitation of all who have to do with heavy

land from which it is neceflary to remove the furface-water*.

To be read after Line 31, Page 326.—Straw alone muft, however, often be ineffica- cious, as there is no foil fo tenacious as not to be liable to crumble. Froft penetrates deeper into wet lands than dry ones: evaporation is greater in the former cafe than in the latter, and heat is evolved with more facility. Many of the eftimates of the expenfes of draining, from the great rife in the price of labour, are confiderably lower than the prefent prices.

To be read after Line 2, Page 368.—In Norfolk they occafionally make what is called a baftard fummer-till. If a piece of land, from which they have mown a crop of clover or any artificial grafs, appears to be not fufficiently clean for the enfuing wheat-crop, they plough it twice, and, if there is time, thrice before harveft, ufing freely both the roller(if it is neceffary) and the harrow. They fometimes even make a daftard fammer-till of a pea-{tubble, for the purpofe of cleaning it. As foon as the peas are off the land, which oftentimes happens four or five days, and fome- times a week, before the harvefimen are taken home, they harrow the haulm up and cart it off; plough the land once immediately, and let it lie till harveft is over; then give it two crofs ploughings, and a fourth preparatory for feed, which, how- ever, is oftentimes ploughed in with the laft earth.

To be read after Line 5, Page 541.—The Rev. Dr. Pike has fiated, upon the con- viction of many experiments, that wheat will thrive as well, and produce as full a crop, if fown in the fpring, as if it had been committed to the ground the autumn before; and in many fituations he is of opinion(where it is fubject to much wet during the winter) the crop will be much better in quality and more abundant in quantity.‘“ Ihave frequently fown,” fays he,“in the fpring both the white and the Kentith red wheat, fometimes as Jate as the middle of March, and never had a

* Munning on the Culture of Turnips. ; 7 AG 2 5