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General view of the agriculture of the county of Somerset : with observations on the means of its improvement. Drawn up in the year 1795, for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By John Billingsley, Esq; ... and now re-printed with considerable additions and amendments, .. / John Billingsley
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tigt ſow turnips or plant cabbages, and after theſe ſow, barley Ut and graſs ſeeds. On rich ſandy loam this huſbandry can- Mee| not be too much extolled. 0 It is not the general praîtice within theſe hundreds to half give the arable land a compleat fallow.‘They more fre- ct;/ quently introduce what they call 4 pin fallow, which is "ith| ploughing after vetches, clover, or beans, two or three times, le' to prepare for a ſucceeding crop of wheat. In this way har-| they put on a good dreſſing of rotten dung before the laſt the| ploughing.* vet: RHUBARB,. pie| At Williton near Watchet, the Turkey rhubarb has been | cultivated, and brought to great perfeltion by Mr. BaLL, | ſurgon, of that place. His management of this root having | been particularly deſcribed in the annual publication of the i Society of Arts,&c. I ſhall not natice it. here, and ſhall only 1ter-| add, that equal attention and ſucceſs have attended the ex- 1d of i ertions of JAME2 BERNARD, elq; of Crowcombe, in the 1e at| ſame article, though in a different climate and ſoil. and| Mr. BERNAND has alſo lately mtroduced to this country ore| ſome farmers from Norfolk, whoſe example, it is to be hoped, will excite in the neighbouring renters a diſpofition ViE| to clean and meliorate their land, by turnips and other im- E| Proving crops. ut in| E EEE SS one j*‘The general mode af carrying the harveſt crops in this part of

| the country is a ſtriking objeâ to a farmer fram a diferent part of | the kingdom—it is on horſes? backs.‘The face af the country is in- ugh j deed ſo generally ſeep as to render this cuſtom not furprifing toa ſpeRtator—even manure is conveyed to the land by fingle horfes, in a

C Ms; dung-pot fixed on each fide of a pack-ſaddle. In carrying corn, a ME? large wooden crook on each ûde of the ſaddle is laden with the ſheaves, 10ts, and when diſcharged in the barn, or at the mow, the horſe is ridden then| away to be reladen, and in this way greater expedition is made than G( by waggons, or any other mode of conveyance. ULC.

 
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