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the means of securing ample stores of winter food for live- vstock. W ith these views, there are four principal objects ofpursuit in such humid and elevated situations: 1. The im-provement of those portions of the land which ought to bedevoted to pasture grass; 2. The cultivation and improve-ment of such portions as may be fitted for the production ofhay ; 3. The improvement of such parts of the land as maybe fitted for the growth of turnips, or other green crops forwinter supply to the live-stock ; and, 4. The cultivation of po-tatoes for the food of man, and the incidental production ofgrain crops in the ordinary steps of the rotation which arenecessary for securing the more immediate objects of the hus-bandman, hay, turnips, and improved pasture. A great por-tion of the circumstances pertaining to this section will fall tobe considered more at large in other chapters of this GeneralReport; particularly in regard to grass land and its improve-ment, wastes, draining, irrigation, and other heads of inqui-ry which do not belong to the present chapter. All there-fore that can be said with propriety, in this subdivision, mustbe confined very much to a general sketch of these subjects,which shall be explained in as convenient an arrangement a3possible.
1. Of elevated pastures.
In regard to these, hardly any thing can be said on thepresent occasion, as they do not in general admit of beingbroken up for tillage with propriety. On these occasions,draining and liming the surface have been put in practicewith great success, for reclaiming and improving coarseheaths and moor pastures ; but as the detail of these opera-tions is appropriated to another chapter, such operations shallonly be noticed as belong to tillage and the course of crop-ping.
Where elevated pastures are of such a nature as to admitof tillage for their improvement, they will generally be foundto arrange themselves under one or other of the descriptions