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will be the consequence of mantring the fallows, particularly upon cold or wet land, as the lumps of litter or dung cannot become sufficiently mixed’ with the soil, but, on the contrary, will hold water like a sponge. As I have both seen and been materially affected by that practice, it has determined me wholly to abandon that mode, as the land by the other method will recéive the same nourishment, though at different Stages of its ro tation.

I have generally observed those crops answer best from their regularity, which are sown upon lands from three to four yards in breadth, and pretty low, provided-care be taken to grip and. drain them well, to prevent the water standing in the furrows.‘The only reason I can assign is this: the quantity’ of rain falling between the ridge and the furrow cannot form itself into such large curYents in descent to the lowest parts, as it would on large lands, where the distance from the ridge to the furrow is so great as to suffer the water to accumulate into large stréams before it delivers itself, washing up even the roots of the corn, and the best part of the soil. It is evident from practice, that an inclosure, consisting of low small lands, is much easier thrown down, cross cut, and cleansed from weeds, during a fallow, than those larger and higher.

As to that part of the county in which I live, I am sorry to say, that’except with a few individuals, I° find no general wish for improvement. The hedges negleéted, the ditches suffered to be trodden in and grown up, the weeding of crops not attended to, the fallows too little pains taken with; in short, some of the farmers see no’ farther than the present profits, which often deprives them of future ones. Indeed I perceive an etror to’ pervade the minds of many, as well in other places as here, which would induce them, if permitted, to plough up as muck: land as possible, and sow four or five crops successively