C NECESSITY OF PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE:

To the Editor of the Commercial and Agricultura! Magazine: SITR; AVING been a conftant Reader of your Agricultural Magazine, I cannot help obſerving what different opi- nions there are in reſpe&t to fallowing. From pradtice and ſome knowledge in the buſineßs, as I was brought up to it from my infancy, 1 take the liberty of offering a few remarks, and I have no doubt every good pradical farmer will allow them to be fa&s. They certainly will not meet the approbation of Leiceſ- trienſis, who talks ſo much of theory, that 1 cannot help thinking he wants more pradtice before he gives his opinion ſo decidedly on the ſubjed of fallowing. I agree with Pradéticus, that to re- commend farming without fallowing is unneceſſary, for the expe- rienced praâtical farmer knows better, and it is dangerous to the young farmer; for if he is placed in a conſiderable farm, and ſets off upon cropping without fallowing, he will ſoon únd his farm exhauſted to ſuch a degree that it will coſt him a conſiderable ſum of money, and ſeveral years labour, to put it in a- proper fate again: and if his property is but lender, it may perhaps be his ruin, besides the loſs to the publie by a deficient produce. In the neighbourhood where I live, and every place where I have been, thoſe farmers who fallow moſt certainly grow the moſt corn;(ome of then nearly double the quantity of‘thoſe who fal- low but little. I have ſeen land which has been fallowed two years ſucceſlively anſwer extremely well. I ſhould be glad to be

informed by Leiceftrienſis, how land is to be cleaned when it is very foul, without fallowing? I ſhould alſo be glad to know, how we are to grow turnips(the moſt valuable crop Wwe have) without good fallowing? but I know it is impoſible: anc with- out turnips, or ſome ſubſtitute for them, how is the ſtraw to be made into proper muck, which is the foundation of all fertility. Leiceſtrienſis recommends Praêticus to reconſider the important queſtion of fallows. Conſidering and reconſidering will not do — theory will not do; it muſt be from practice alone that deter- mination muſt reſult. He believes by fallowing we exhauſt and foul the land in a much greater degree than thoſe who have to- tally aboliſhed the pra@ice. I ſay chat every man who is a good farmer knows to the contrary.

Leiceſtrienſis ſupriſes me very much by ſaying that hay, which is become móuldy in the ſtack, will work wonders in loading an animal with groſs fat, and beaſts in general are exceſkvely greedy ofit. I never yet ſawa beaſt of any kind that would eat mouldy hay, unleſs he was almoſt ſtarved, and then he would much ſooner eat ordinary raw. j

I am, Sir, your’s,&c. A NoRFoLK FAKMER«