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MR. SALTER'S METHOD OB IMPROYING CRASS LAND.

To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine. SIR,

TI Send you the inclosed, requezting you to publish it in-your next month's magazine--[ Shall only observe upon It at present, that if it had been Subinittedto the inspection of the learned Secretary of the Norfolk agrieultaral Society, it would certainly have appeared in a fitter State for the public eye, not only in point of expression, but alsb with respect 19 explicitnezs and method of arrangement,

1 am, Sir, yours,&c. i ÄGRICOLA NORFOLCIENSIS.

To the Rev. St. John Priest, Secretary fo the Norfolk Agricultural Soczeby.

S1R, Wiunbergh, Oct. 25, 1803.

S our president, Mr. Coke, has expreszed himself in

terms of approbation 50 highly gratifying lo me upon

my method of inproving poor Pastures and boggy Meadows,

and particularly when he honoured me with a visit his Summer,

for the purpose of examining a meadow, which was then in

its highest State of Improvement, with a erop growing upon Itz

[ readily comply with your request, and have Sent you the

best inforwation I can of the method, which[ have pursued

now ten years in that line of Farming; a method, which

originated in accident, but which has been eyer 3ince carried on Systematically.

At Michaelmas 1795, I entered upon this Farm, conzizting of upwards ef Six hundred acres, of which the greatest part is wet, Springy, cold land. There were at that time, about one hundred acres of bad Meadow, 80 over-run with rusShes, Sedges, and all Sorts of aquatic plants, that no Sheep had ever been known to be pastured upon them: whereas for the last eight years I have not had 2 Single imstance of a rotten Sheep. L first cut the rivulet, which runs through the Meadows, three hundred and fifty two rods in length,(reckoning Seven yards to a rod) and eight feet wide, I als9 cut one thouzand, one hundred, and Sixteen rods of open Drains; and thie turf or Sods, which came out of'them, 1 laid to dry in the months of February and March, and as Ssgon as dried I gathered them on large heaps ot SIXty and a hundred loads, and burnt them 49 ashes. On the Second of April, 1795, I dibbled about two acres of that part of the meadow,* which was most dry, and immediately[I carried on in half-load tumbrils with: broad

+ Query, with what?

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