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The more frequent uſe of the plough, however, as a ſaving of labour to the market-gardeners, in the prepara- tion of great part of their extenſive grounds, for the more common vegetable productions, ſuch as peaſe, cabbages,

c. is worth their confideration. Some gardeners already follow this plan; but inſtead of a light plough, which in garden-ground would require only one horſe and a man, ſtrong heavy ploughs, which four or five horſes can hardly drag along, and which require a ploughman and a driver, are made uſe of for that purpoſe.

The culture of parſnips ought to be more attended to in Middleſex than it is. They are an excellent food for cat- tle, horſes, and pigs. They are, in particular, a very rich food for cows, and yield excellent milk and butter. Horſes fatten quickly upon them; but, like boiled potatoes, though they make them flabby fat, they are not able to perform ſo much work, as when they are fed upon harder food. This root, there is every reaſon to believe, would be a very valuable acquiſition to the farmer for ſpring food, preſerved in dry ſand, in pits, in the ſame manner as car- rots and potatoes are at preſent kept during the winter.

If hay from ſeeds, would fetch an equal price at market, with what is called hay from meadow, the farmer, it is preſumed, would not only find a much greater weight upon the acre, but it would give him an opportunity of having his lands more frequently cropped with grain; as the general reaſon for keeping lands almoſt continually in graſs, is, the difficulty of reſtoring the ſwerd. By ſowing artificial graſſes, the object is obtained at once; and I ſee nothing contrary to the practice, but the prejudice of buyers againſt hay from ſeeds, which it is moſt likely may be got over, upon a fair and comparative trial.

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