26 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY
After wintering his year old lamb hogs on turnips, he puts them on the second year’s seeds; and they go off fat the latter end of May and Basing of June. On the third year’s seeds he puts his ewes and lambs.
Mr. Bower of West Drayton, on his best forest land; 1. oats; 2. oats or(if the former crop is not shelled) sometimes wheat; 3. turnips, 4. barley with seeds for three years, viz. rye-grass, one bushel or two strikes,(the strike being the Winchester bushel); Dutch white clover, fourteen pounds; red clover, four pounds, or cow grass, We: red perennial clover, called sometimes red shen-suckle.’
On worse Land.—Break up for, 1. oats; S-turiips; 3. barley, with seeds for three years; one nine of rye- grass, twelve pounds of Dutch clover: has a year’s farm- yard manure before hand: chuses to lay it on at Michael- mas for turnips, if the land is nearly clean, and ploughs it in: then breaks with the drag harrow or cultivator, drawn by oxen, to get the twitch out; ploughs once in spring, then harr ows W vet the common harrow, as often as necessary, and uses the cultivator:* does one anda half acres a day in
ploughing, and with the cultivator seven acres a day or more. He sometimes goes out of his rotation, and sows blue and white peasin drill. Thinks the latter the best. He has a great opinion of buck wheat, as a cleaner of land. Finds eipee a great lmpoverisher; sows trefoil, z.¢. hop, or yellow ered clover for sheep, not for a crop, as it does not rise high enough. Dutch clover grows as well, and is higher.
For Potatoes—trenches the swarth with a trench plough, then sets them in rows; in every third furrow about four in- ches asunder. Grows some of them every year; if two shillings a sack, would feed with them, but at the present price‘of three shillings and six pence, and four shillings, sends them to a market. He cuts them with two eyes to each set; sets nine sacks, and gets 115 per acre.
* For the description of the Cultivator, or Scuffler, as it is sometimes called, vide Appendix, No. V.