228 On Dresszing Meadows,&c.[Oet.

and common ditto three shillings and ſour-pence to three shil- ſings and Sixpence, per Winchester bushel. 14 am Sir, Yours,&c. AGRICOLA NORTHUMBRIENSIS.

INSTRUCTIONS TO A CITIZEN,&c.

P.S. A mixture of coal ashes, and lime, would form a manure, which, 1 think, your correspondent“ A Citizen," might apply with great advantage, to those parts of his mea- dows which are.“ overrun with rushes." On other parts, he would probably restore fertility, by a proper application of cCowpost, formed with dung, rich earth, and lime. 1 cannot advise him to pursue the culture of turnips vpon bis strong tand; for though by a copious application of manures, he might obtain pretty abundant crops of that root, the Succeed- 109 crops of corn would be much mjured, in consequence of the poaching of the horses,&c. in carrying them off. No person of judgment would buy them to fold on. 1 should Suppose that he would reap the greatest profit from raising wheat, oats, beans, and clover, on these Solls; lucerne and Saint-foin, are very Sparingly cultivated in this distriet. Much, however, has been advanced in favour ol these crops; but on this head, I must refer him to Some of your Southern friends.

1f his celayey Soils are rich and not wet, a proper rotation of erops, might, in a great measure, do away the necessity of bare fallowing. Even in a favourable Situation, however, and with the most perfect culture of drilled beans,(insztead of a fallow,) he would, perhaps,'See the necesszity of giving a clean fallow, once in nine, ten, or 1welve years, In very Jate and wet spring, the latter would be the most advan- tageous mode of culture.

1 have already given my opinion(in your Magazine) in favour of Winter tares, to be S8ucceeded by turnips, and the latter by wheat, upor cleun and rich turnip Soils zu 4 favour- able climate. Under this SyYStem, 1 have this Season, reaped a crop of wheat, that will produce upwards of forty Winches- ter bushels per acre, itthe yield be in the uSual proportion to the bulk in the stook. Upon a Small part of be land, where the Soil was too light and gravelly for wheat,[ Sowed rye, which produced the astonishing number of eighty* stooks, (of twelve large Sheaves each) per acre; the manure applied for the turnips, was mostly the kind of compost, 1 recom- mended in your 72d number. The land Should be two or

& Or rather at the rate of that quantity per acre,