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urhood raſfng It is towards the more Weſtern boundaries of the richer county, that corn is principally attended to. At 18 miles racice diſtance fro mithe metropolis, it is hardly worth while to a pro. fend hay to the London-market(having nothing but ma- Cle tle nute to carry back again), unleſs the price is very tempt- leies ing; in which caſe, indeed, hay is brought from a ſtill ler o Arestor diſtance. Fowards Harrow and that part of the county, the cul- ſinu ture of hay continues to Prevail where the ground is in- n cloſed, but not to the ſame extent; for you frequently ahe 1 meet with fields under wheat, beans,&c. Though the 3 n crops, however, are abundantly rich, yet the owner does nSrrihg noöt find it his intereſt, to continue his incloſed ground in 1 perpetual tillage. He lays it down, therefore, to meadow ſ 2 again, after a crop or two, which generally anſwers the Tpene. purpoſe for which it was broken up. But whether it is to (he free old grafs grounds from fogging, or whatever other d reaſons Inr induce the farmer to convert his fields into ls⸗ 1b tillage, it has been matter of ſurprize to many intelligent 793, perſons, why artificial graſſes, particularly clover and rye aider. graſs, are ſo ſeldom uſed, when the huſbandmen of this Müiſ county lay down their grounds to hay-crops. Perhaps they may have very fubſtantial reaſons for preferring na- arethan tural graſſes; but it might be worth the attention of the ver the Board, to make this a more particular ſubject of future en- that in quiry, as in the courſe of my communications, I never uter⸗ had the good fortune to fall in with any one, that could n give me ſatisfactory reaſons, for their conduc: in this parti- a very cular. ira part In the more remote parts of the county, it may be ob- aiß ſas ſerved, that clover and rye graſs are occaſionally gone into, un as a preparation for wheat; but the hay ſent to the Lon- 6 de don market principally confiſts of natural graffes. eg:dut In ſome parts of Middleſex, the cultivation of green wrj jer, peaſe and turnips brebais on ſo large a ſcale, as to make a vilen part of their regular courſe of agriculture ea C 3 The market,) 6 lt

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