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OF WESTMORELAND, Jos

Where the land is intended to be depaſtured, the ar- gument will apply with treble force; and the decided pre ference given by catile of all kinds to the green herbage of the artificial, over that of the natural graſs, ousht tó remove every doubt from the minds even of thoſe who are the moſt frongly prepoſſeſſed in favour of the preſent pradice.

In front of Carus Wilſon, Eſq.’s new houſe near Kirk= by Lonſdale, there lies a field of ſixteen acres, which vas ſown with graſs ſceds amongſt a crop of barley in the year 1792. Tt was depaſtured in 1793, and maintained[bree times more ſtock than he would. have expedted it to main- tain, had it been left to itſelf in the ordinary way. Far- mers, the moſt prejudiced againſt ſown grafles, ſaw and contfeſled the force of the experiments and, it is not to be doubted, will follow an example which tends ſo materially to promote their intereſt.

The cultivation of clover is perhaps the greateſt im=- provement in the art of farming which has been diſco vered in modérn times; and it is equally matter of regret and of ſurpriſe, that what is at once ſo eaſy and ſo profite able is not yet become univerſal, and it furniſhes a ſtrong inſtance of the difficulty with which old habits and pre-

judices are rooted out, evén when ſelf-intereſt is concern= ed 1n their extirpations

Turnips.— The climate and ſoil of the vallies of Weſt moreland are well ſuited to the cultivation of turnips, which muſt be carried on to a confiderable exteñt before the agriculture of the county can be improved in any material degree. Experience has ſhown that this crop, and the mode of huſbandry uſually conné&ed with it, are able, not only to fertiliſe particular farms, but evén to improve whole counties. The moſt profitable and the leaſt troubleſome way of diſpoſing of this crop-is to fatten ſheep with it. A cuſtomary acre of turnips, if the crop

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