AGRICULTURAL SURVEYS.

THE Board of Agriculture, will have occaſion to em- ploy, ſome very intelligent Surveyors, or Perſons ſkilled in huſbandry, in examining into the Agricultural ſtate of all the different Counties of England and Scotland, and, in pointing out, in what reſpects, there is room for improvements.

The inquiries principally to be made, will relate to the following POolnts:

1. The nature of the ſoil and climate of the diſtrict to be exa- mined?

2. The manner in which the Land is poſſeſſed, whether by great or by ſmall proprietors?

3. The manner in which the Land is occupied, whether by great or by ſmall farmers?

4. The manner in which the Land is employed, whether in paſture, in huſbandry, or, a mixture of both?

5. If in paſture, what graſſes are cultivated? what ſpecics of ſtock is kept? whether the breeds can be improved, or whether new breeds ought to be tried?

6. Whether any of the land is watered, and whether any con- ſiderable extent of ground is capable of that improvement?

7. If the land is employed in Huſbandry, what are the grains principally cultivated?

8. What is the rotation of crops? and in particular whether green crops, as turnips, clover,&c. are cultivated, and how they are found to anſwer?

9. Whether fallowing is practiſed or otherwiſe?

10. What manures are made uſe of?

11. What are the uſual ſorts of ploughs, carts, and other im- plements of hufbandry?

12. Whether oxen or horſes are made uſe of?

13. What is the ufual ſeed time and harveſt?

14. Whether the land is incloſed or in open fields?

15. What advantages have been found to reſult from incloſing land, in regard to thée increaſe of rent,—— quantity, or quality of produce,— improvement of ſtock,&c.

16. What is the ſize and nature of the incloſures?

12. Whether incloſures have increaſed or decreaſed population?

14. Whethen