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Jong on the plough, and too little use made of seeds. If practised the contrary way, I believe it would be found an improvement.

Page ditto. Compost lime, road soil,&c. being men- tioned as useful, though not a powerful manure; I believe the same: but if more practised m this our country, it would be found very useful to meadow land. It is very proper in that compost to mix a partof dung.

Page ditto. Farm yard dung, I think, to be properly ordered, the shortest time it should lie after being turned in the yard, should be six weeks. N.B. In the winter, the dung that comes from horses should be regularly mixt with the dung that is made by other cattle, which promotes a greater fermentation than if it was not mixt. Taking dung fromn the stables by servants in barrows, and turning it down in heaps upon the dunghill, without spreading it with a fork, is an error too much praétised by the servant, and too little noticed by the master.

Page 55. In tillage great improvements may be made, by reducing the breadth of the Jands, which being from thirty-six to forty-eight feet wide, and elevated in the centre three feet, in sucha form, no arable land can be worked to its best advantage; the ridges, at some periods, being over dry, and at others the furrows over wef, It appears also an improvement, at the time of ploughing, to make the furrow become the crown, and crown the furrow, alter- nately. I have myself tried the experiment upon woodland clay soil, and found itto answer: I wish it was more prac- tised, I-think it would be an improvement upon most sorts of soil.——N. B. Upon dry sand soil there is no occasion. It may be said this mode may not suit a damp soil; but as the breadth is mentioned to be such as to suit to be sowed at one cast upon a land, a single hand cast upon a land cannot be sowed regular; but the same land should be sowed by double hand, but with the same quantity as one hand would