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tention to this ſource of improvement, the nature and princi- ples of which are too well known to reguire any elucidation in this place. There are two modes of cultivating turnips 5 thé one is by‘the broad-caft, the other by the drill ſyſtem of huſbandry. Which 1s the moſt productive, has not yet been decidedly aſcertained; but the drill ſyftem is the moſt eaſily introduced, on the account of the greater facility of hoeing.— For the broadcait ſyitem of turnip huſbandry, the ſurvey of the county of Norfolk may be conſulted;¡—for the drill ſyſtem, that of Northumberland.

5. CATTLE.—lIt is acknowledged that the Lancaſhire breed. of cattle, do not equal what they were ſome years ago, and are certainly much inferior to the improved ſtock of the ſame breed(namely, the long-horned) in other parts of the king- dom. As Lancaſhire muſt always be as much of a grazing» than of an aráble country, it is particularly deſirable, for the advantage of its inhabitants, that the herbage it produces, ſhould feed as profitable a ſpecies of ſtock as poſible; and hence par- ticular attention to its breed of cattle cannot be too ſtrongly recommended,;

6. SHEEP..—It is impoſkble to ſee without regret, that ſo valuable an animal, ſhould hitherto have had ſo moderate a ſhare of the attention of the Lancaſhire farmers, as there is none by means of which fuch great improvements might be effected. Notwithſtanding the humidity of the climate, where the ſoil is dry, or capable of being drained, no apprehenſion’ need be en- tertained of this animal's ſucceeding to a wiih. At preſent, the greater part of the county ſeems to be principally devoted to the moſt unprofitable of all that ſpecies of ſtock, namely, the black-faced Scotch, whoſe fleece is of little or no value, whoſe reſtleſſneſs renders it difficult for them to be confined in any common incloſure, and the wildneſs of whoſe diſpoſition make it extremely difficult to fatten them, Inſtead of theſe, there are two ſorts of ſheep, the Cheviot for the hilly parts ofthe country, and the Bakewell or Culley breed, for the lower diſtri, which cannot be too ſtrongly recommended to the people of Lancaſhire.

‘The Cheviot are to be found on the borders of England

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