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tremities, the caſe is otherwiſe, but in the neighbourhood of the City, the lands are principally occupied in ralſing hay for the London-market. From the lower and richer grounds, they cut two crops in the ſeaſon; a practice which could no where be adopted, but where land is pro- perly watered, or in the vicinity of a great City, where the command of manure is ſuperabundant. In the higher grounds, round Highgate and Hampſtead, and farther on to Barnet and that neighbourhood, they cut only once.

That part of the county of Middleſex beyond Houn- ſlow-heath, and towards Cranford, Uxbridge,&c. is in a ſtate of high cultivation; a conſiderable part of it is alſo occupied in raiſing hay for the London market; and thia affords ſo fure a profit, that all the lands in this county, in the immediate contiguity of London, dot employed as garden-ground, may be ſaid to be devoted to that purpoſe. Two loads an acre, is reckoned a moderate crop;(the load here is only 1800 weight;) but two and a half is not Duncommon, and ſometimes more. When hay is at L. 5. a ton, or. 4. 10s5. a load, as it is at preſent,(July 1793), and land in a ſituation to yield two cuttings, and after- graſs beſides, no plan can yield more profitable returns, with ſuch little riſk and trouble*†.

* No good farmer, however, thinks of mowing his meadow lands more than once a year, unleſs he has, or can eaſily procure, dung ſufficient to cover the ground immediately after a ſecond mowing. It is worthy of remark, that in the beautiful pariſh of Hendon, in this county(7 miles from London), where the ſoil is in generel a very ſtrong clay, the farmers uſed to mow as much hay from 15e awole of their grounds as they could get, wuhout thinking of the ill conſequences that might attend it; but experience hath taught them a very different mode of occupying their grounds, viz. to depaſture about a third part of their graſs lands, with bullocks, cows,&c. for which they find a ready ſale at Smi hfield abou the months of October and November.— The mode which was there formerly purſued, obliged them to ſell off their ſtock about Michael- mas; for if they had not done ſo, their grounds would not have carried the cattle, without being very much poached, and thereby greatl) injured:— dut now theſe capital farmers, by depafturing a part of their grounds every year, find, that the grounds which they had depaſtured the preceding year, will dear their ſtock a confiderable time longer, without being injured by the feet of the cattle. This enables them to bring their ſtock to a much better market, and is alſo a great ſaving in the manuring of the land.

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