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way.» The flax is carefully weeded, and artificial graſles often ſowed along with it; which pradttice 13 found. by ex- perience to be the moſt deſirable method of laying land to graſs, the ground being well prepared, the flax early pul- led, and the crop carried off in the dry part of the ſeaſon; circumſtances in favour of the young graſs plants.

The Turzip huſbandry has been tried in various parts of the county, principally by proprietors of eſtates; but from the moiſture of the climate and wetneſs of the ſoil, the land has been found to poach, in carrying off the crop in winter, and very little of the land is dry enough to have them fed off where they grow. They have been cultivated in the moſt populous parts of the county; but the culture has been much diſcouraged by the depradations of poor people and children, inſomuch that the owner of the field has not ſome- times been able to retain above one half of the crop for his own uſe. The culture, however, ſeems to be increaſing in the breeding part of the county.

Graſſ?ts. The cultivation of ſown grafles has now be- come very general; and the many advantages which reſult from this ſpecies of huſbandry are acknowledged by all. In laying lands to graß, the kinds uſed are the red and white clovers, ryegraß, narrow leaved plantain, and tre- foil or yellow clover. The ſtate of the ground,«he ſeaſon of the year, the previous crop, and the uſes for which the graſßles are Intended, regulate, in a great meaſure, the quan- tities of ſeed of each kind, that are allowed to an acre. Red clover is ſowed from 8 to 20 Ib. per acre, white clo« ver from 3 to 8 1b., yellow from 2 to 5 1b., plantain from 3 to 6 1b. and ryegraſs from 1 to 2 buſhels. The produ&t is various. An acre of Carſe-land yields from 150 ſtones of hay; to 400, at one cutting; the medium may be about 250. Inthe uplands the Pprodud is from 82 to 250 ſtones Per acre. More tban half the crop is uſually carried to market; but in ſmall farms the whole 15 generally ſold, as

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