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homestall, have but little pot-dung bestowed on them; all their support arises from that quiet, generous animal, the sheep, which periodically bears to its fold, the nourishing means for future crops.

Woollen rags, at about 58. a cwt., are a species of manure, used in this county, for dressing wheat, and clover lays, and from their peculiar qualities, often produce abundant crops, upon some of the light soils.

Malt-dust is used for a barley crop, particularly on the north side of the county: and peat-ash,(one of the most essential dress- ings), is spread in every part, for crops of corn and hay.

The wheat sowing, is necessarily very early on the downs, and light land. Some persons put their wheat in, so soon, as the first week in August, and their turnips, in May; but about Old Lam- mas, is the general time for sowing wheat, in the hill country. The Lent-corn, in the same situations, is got in, during the months of March and April, and unless the season is very backward, is completed before the middle of April, and the turnip sowing, about the middle of June. In the loamy, cohesive, and strong land, the periods of sowing differ, according to the tendency of the Soil. The general busy time in these parts for wheat sowing, appears to be, from the middle of September, to the middle of October; and of the barley sowing, from Lady-day, to May-day.

The quantity of seed sown on a statute acre, is on an average,

in most parts of the county, nearly as follows:

Wheat— Barley—— Oats—

Beans, or peas—

3 Bushels. 4 Bushels. 5 ½. Bushels. 3 ½ Bushels.

OBSERVATIONsS. Persuaded as I am, that the general mode of ploughing, fol- lowed in Berkshire, is unnecessarily expensive, I cannot refrain

from again urging the Agriculturist, to lay aside prejudice, and

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