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upon it. The birch hop-poles, very long and kind, I have sold at thirty shillings per hundred. I am now planting about six or eight acres in this sort of lands, in alternate rows of oak, ash, beech, and birch, which I prefer to alternate plants in the same row, planting them in quin- cunx order, so that the rows are lost as the plants grow up, and they become promiscuous, and regularly set at what distance you please.”

In the Clay Diftrié, North of Trent,—there is a great intermixture of open field and inclosed townships; but more of the former, as may be seen. by No. VI. Appendix.

In the open field, the common course of husbandry is pursued as 1. fallow; 2. wheat or barley; 3. beans, pease, or both mixed. The latter crop.is very common in this country. he reason given for it is its smothering the weeds; but[ have always observed the crops to be very foul.

Folding is little used. Few farmers, indeed, have stock enough of sheep to do it with any effect.

In some places, of late years, clover has been sown with the barley, and mown the third year, instead of the bean crop, which, in lands that have been long in tillage, is often very poor. The old way, in Oxton fields, was the usual one of two crops and a fallow, there being only three fields. In consequence of the act for cultivation of common fields, of 1773, they have now sown broad or red clover with their wheat or barley,(except a few who chuse to have their old crop of pease and beans the next year) they mow the clover the second year, and then stock it with three horses to two acres; or else two cows, or six calves, or three sturks to an acre, and then fallow, except a few persons who let the clo- ver lie another year, and then sow it with wheat. They find this answer so well, that they intend to divide one field into two, so as to have four fields. One barley, one clover, one wheat, and one fallow. In inclosed lands, part 1s kept as arable, part pasture. Fallows are still retained;

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