302 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

From theſe heaps, placed at fuch diſtances as to manure one acre, it may be wheeled and ſpread for two-pence half- penny per load. In this method of hauling out dung, three waggons, four horſes, and five men are employed; namely, one waggon and two men loading in the yard, another wag- gon and two men unloading in the field, and the third waggon and driver going backward and forward.*

Wherever waſte earth, mud from ponds, highway dirt, aſhes,&c.&c. can be procured, compoſt heaps ſhould not be neglected; theſe are beſt calculated for paſture land.

Such a condudt will entitle the farmer to a great produce, and keep his land in good order; but all this will not do without

thly. 4 regular and well-conceived rotation of Crops. Ye 1

This I conſider as the moſt promiſing feature in good farming; and if it were generally adopted, would increaſe the produce of the land threefold.

A cuſtom prevails in this county, and indeed in moft others, of ſubjelting a portion of land to continual tillage, and of interdicting the plough on all the other; this origi- nated from improper condud on the part of the tenant.—

* In the application of dung, the farmers of Somerſet begin at the wrong end. It is aln oft the general pradice to manure for the œvheat crop, whereby the wheat land is made foul, and though there 1s a great burthen of ftraw, there'1s bui little Corn.

How much more beneficial would it be, to apply all the dung to

potatoes, turnips,&c. and to the Ls graſſes, making wheat the

laſt crop in the courſe? It is alſo uſual to manure the turnip land im-

media; but I have experienced greât advantäge, and

more decided certainty of a crop, by manuring in autumn on the ſtub-

bles, ploughing the ſame in, on a fleet furrow, and letting it remain in

that ſtate during the winter months

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