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General View Of The Agriculture Of The County Of Huntingdon : And Observations On The Means Of Its Improvement : With An Appendix Containing An Account Of The Advantages To Be Derived From An Improved Outfal At The Port Of Lynn : And Answers To The Objections Which It Is Supposed Will Be Urged Against That Measure / Drawn Up For The Consideration Of The Board Of Agriculture And Internal Improvement ; By George Maxwell, Of Fletton, Near Stilton
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For remarks and additional obſervations. of beans, any other pulſe grain— and inſtead of barley again, any other white corn may be uſed—whilſt a ſmall portion of either diviſion may be ſet apart for ſupply ing ſuch ſeeds as from their exhauſting nature are not admifſible for general

cultivation. In fhort, from experience, I will be bold to

affirm, that(except in ſuch caſes as no human foreſight can

prevent) it will neither fail to afford a luxuriant produce, nor to aſſiſt our own operations of improvement.

My idea has always been, that farmers are eaſieſt excited to good management by falling in a little with thoſe habits which practical men know to be inſeparable from the detail of agriculture. When they ſee a brother farmer cultivating the ſame ſort of ſoil, employing the ſame deſcription of labourers, and conforming in all eſſential points to the ſame modes and cuſtoms with themſelves, and find that he pro- duces better crops, and derives, in all appearance, a greater profit than they do, that watchful monitor, Self-intereſt, prompts an enquiry into the detail of his operations; 85 ſee perhaps that he ſows beans, or ſome other meliorating crop, when the land is in its greateſt vigour, inſtead of in- troducing the ſame thing after an exhauſting crop of corn; they obſerve that he does not depend ſo much on keeping his land up to the mark by ſtrong manuring, as by a different courſe of thoſe very ſorts of corn and vegetables, which they have been long in the habit of uſing themſelves— They learn perhaps that he ſaves a confiderable part of the re by leffening the uſual proportion of ſeed, and otelihard- ing, that his crops are ſtronger, and apparently more pro-

— ductive than theirs;— and, after all, that at the end of the courſe, his land is in a better ſtate than it was at the be-

ginning. Theſe are matters that, if they really exiſt,

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likely enough to claim the attention of the neighbogrhood; for few are ſo obſtinate— perverſe as not to avail them- ſelves of ſuch examples. Far be it from me to decry inge- nuity of any kind. I am truly ſenſible of the value of

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