I 41 1 S ECTION VI.

N CORNERS OF FIELDS.

THE farmers in Leiceſterfhire give their labourers leave to plant ſuch ſpots: they plant and clean in mornings and evenings at their own time. Baulks and headlands there will give tolerable crops without manure. An excellent cuſtom.(c)

OBSERVATION.

The practice here, in few words deſcribed, appears to be a very important one, and highly beneficial to the poor people, who are thus indulged without any expence to the farmer, who grants ſo commendable a favour.

SEOTIN VII. 8 0 IL. Authorities from the County Reports.

IN Selkirkfhire, they never thrive but on dry ſoils; and where wet ſpots happen, always of awatery ſubſtance; inferior in quantity, and worſe in qua- lity.(4). Tre

Ocher Aut horities.

Potatoes will not grow on the rich cerkaſs lands on the Shannon: a ddep, very rich blue clay.(e)

In Mid Lothian, a large field of various ſoils, the whole planted, and the crop good on dry land; on the wet land, bad; and on the wetteſt, none at all(). 1222

u. Nwnley, of Belfield, planted four eyes, of the cluſter ſort, in four different kinds of ſoil. 1

No. 1. A ſtrong rich loam, produced 34 1b.

2. A light rich loam, 29 3. A good gravel, 19 4. A fandy ſoil, 15(⁹)

(2) Marfhal Midland Co. vol. 2. p.—3.(d) Selkirk, 30.() Iriſh Tour, vol. 1. p. 354- () Wight, vol. 4. part z. p. 622.(Q) Georgical Effays, vol. 4. p. 46- 3

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