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years occaſions in the confumption of malt: Tonly mean to ſay, that this ſaving is neither ſufficiently freguent, nor ſufficiently extenſive, to afford an adequate compenſation for the injury ſuſ- tained A the ſhade of the aforeſaid trees.

L cannot conclude my letter without entering my proteft againſt the admiſſion of politics iñto your magazine, as recom- mended by your correſpondent Leiceftrienfis.

I am ſorry, likewiſe, to ſee it even inſfinuated by ſo ſenſible a- Writer, thát a total abolition of fallows would add to the pro- dudiveneſs of this kingdom. Such inſtrußion, I think, is

wholly unneceſlary, and extremely dangerous. It is unneceſ-

ſary to the experienced agriculturift; for he already knows that he has too often tried how long the grateful earth would bear cropping before ſhe was utterly caſt down; and it is both un- neceſlary and dangerous to the young farmer, as it meets and encourages his natural, and already too ſanguine, expectations? for, he never enters upon his agricultural career, without form- ing too vaſt an idea ofthe inexhaufſtible ſtrength of his land. By thus over-cropping land, and keeping it below its work, we lay it entirely at the mércy of every little unfav ourableneſs of ſeaſon 5 whereas, if we keep it at full ſtrength and ſpirits, any unfriend- lineſs of weather, that would be ruinous to a crop on impover- iſhed land, will not even ſerve as a check on this. That foul land cannot be properly cleanſed without a ſummer fallow is too obvious, I preſume, to be here inſiſted on.

It may here be ſaid, in anſwer to my 2 aſſertions, that a meli- orating crop,“ſuch as potatoes, turnips, vetches, clover and the like, will of courſe be ſubſtituted in the place of the fallow; but "4 0 not allow that any crop can be meliorating to land with- out firſt rôbbing other land of an extra guantity of dung to make it ſo. I have ſcen the grain produced, after theſe meliorating crops, compared with that from a clean fallow, and the infe- riority of the former wás always very manifeſt, both from its appearance and weight. The Cheſhire‘and Lancaſhire farmers always rejet the wheat raiſed after a potatoe crop, as ſeed. If we muſt baniſh fallows, we muſt lay ourſelves under the expen- ſive necelity of an annual change of ſeed.

This affertion, I preſume, will not meet the eye of the áuthor of the Rural Economy of England, or I ſhould run great riſque

of experiencing at leaſt a contempruous ſmile; for Ke ridicules the very idea of a. change of ſeed. Fortunately for me, this author,

' though he has made more and- larger‘2 agdieultural books than

álmolt any other man, profeſles to ABE‘nothing on the ſubje@& of huſbandry. I am you's PRACTICUS. Glcaceſter, Fuly 14.