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with the oats, over fifty acres, clover-feed to be fown. After the turnip feafon is pa ft,continue paring and burning for rye, as before. The labourers employed in the fummeron paring and burning, to work in the winter on ditching, for forming inclofures ; thebanks to be planted with white thorn, and willows for making hurdles. This is fufficientto ftate the leading principles of the undertaking. CEconomy in the execution demandsthat the labourers employed fhould have work conftantly; in fummer paring and burn-ing, and managing the hay and corn harveft; and in winter ditching, quarrying, if therebe lime-ftone on the premifes, for burning lime for manure, and if not, digging andfilling marl, or chalk, or other manures which may be found under the furface. lalike manner the number of mafons and carpenters fhould be fo regulated, in proportionto the works, fo as to find conftanc employment through the building feafon.
The courfes of crops will explain the whole bufinefs of tillage. On the land paredand burnt, and planted with potatoes in the fpring, the following rotation: i, potatoes—2, oats—3, turnips—4, oats, and grafs feeds for laying down.
On the land pared and burnt, and fown with turnips at midfummer: 1, turnips—
2, oats— 3, turnips—4, oats or barley, and grafs feeds for laying down.
On the land pared and burnt, and fown with rye in autumn r 1, rye—2, turnips—
3, oats—4, turnips—5, oats, and grafs feeds for laying down.
All the turnips to be fed on the land with fheep, by hurdling, except thefinall quan-tity that would be wanted for the plough oxen.
'All the grades to be mown the firft year for hay, and then paftured by fheep, for two,-three, four, or more years, according to circumftances. When they wear out, or be-tray indications of a want of renewal, they may be broken up with a certainty of yield-ing grain in plenty, but no two crops of white corn ever to be fown in fucceflion : bywhite corn is underftood wheat, rye, barley, and oats.
A very eafy, and, in fome cafes, effectual method of improving heaths, is by grubbingup the plants that grow fpontaneoufly, and fpreading lime upon the wafte without anytillage, fowing grafs feeds and covering them by the fheep-fold: it is furprifing w'hat a-change is thus effedted at the fmalleft pofhble expence; foils apparently miferable, havebeen made at once worth the rent of 20s. per acre.
It is not poffible to give more than an outline in fuch a fketch as this; variations, arif-ing from a difference of foil, will occur, which, though not confiderable, muft be markedwith care, or ufelefs expences will often be incurred. The method juft hinted at isparticularly applicable upon thofe waftes, which are in culture fterile, from abounding,with the vitriolic acid ; the cafe of many in Bretagne ; where pudding ftone is found infome diftricls at fix to eight inches under the furface : cultivation on fuch by the ploughmay be fo tedious and expenfive, that the mere paring and burning, and application ofcalcareous manure, lime or marl, with grafs feeds and fold, as above-mentioned, wouldbe much the belt improvement, as I have myfelf experienced in a country more vitri-olic and fterile than any waftes I faw in Bretagne .
The progrefs of the flock of fheep will, by its procreation, fhew what tnay he thegiven progrefs of fuch an improvement, providing turnips in the proportion of one acreto five fheep, which will allow enough for oxen and other cattle, and luppofing the Ioffesupon a flock to be five per cent.
If the breed of fheep be good, all the ewes fhould be faved for increafing flock, andthe weathers fhould be kept until two years old and part, fold fat at from two to threeyears. On fuch a plan a flock increafes rapidly, perhaps more fo than the capital em-ployed. But the conductor of fuch an undertaking would of courfe proportion hisflock to his money, fo that all the works might be conftantly going on, without flop op
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