34 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

It 1s imagined it would be found upon trial to do wit|

much more profût to the farmer than would have accrued to him by managing his Iands in the ordinary way; for the ſuperior value oí the EA the rſt two years would far more than reimburſe him for the expence of the grafs ſeeds, and he might MII haye his favourite natural bay after theſe had died entirely ont

This is ſtated upon the ſuppoſition that the feld was to be allowed to lie eight or ten years in graſs, as is the cuſ- tom at preſent, js it wer to be broken up at the end of the firſt or ſecond year, it would be found in good con- dition for bearing a crop of corn, the roots of clover, it is well Known, being a great improver of the ſoil: but this

way of cropping the lands will enter with more propriety into that part where an alteration of the preſent courſe will be ſuggeſted.

In the year 1792, Mr Smith at Henridding in the pariſh of Burton, ſowed a cloſe containing exaûly two acres and a half Lancaſhire meaſure, with 48 Ibs. of red clover ſeed amongſt a crop of barley, for which the land had been Mightly manured after fallow wheat. This field is in Lancaſhire, but being ſituated within an hundred yards of the county of Weſtmoreland, it may be mentioned here without 1mpropriety, and it js ſeleted merely becauſe the particulars reſpeCting it are better known tothe writer of this Report than thoſe in regard to any field of clover in the county that was the obje(t of his ſurvey. It was mown in the month of July 1793, and it then yielded a crop of twenty-two ſingle-horſe cart-loads of bay. It was mown a ſecond time in September, and produced eighteen of the ſame cart-loads. It was depaſtured with nine

ſeep from the time the laſt crop was carried of till the

beginning of November, and the foggage was then tol- erably good. Let the moſt ſtrenuous advocates for natural graſs, fay whether they ever had a crop ſo valu= able! Where