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many other counties. In the first place, the soil of the Weald, or vale land, which forms no inconsiderable proportion of the county, is of such a nature as to require frequent summer-fallowing: where this is necessary, the farmer must have recourse to wheat, in order to pay him for the want of a crop, and for the great expense that he has incurred,; and as lands which most require a summer-fallow, viz. strong wet clay, are peculiarly adapted for wheat, the farmer is led also by this consideration to sow this grain very extensively. In the second place, the general rotation on the light lands brings in a crop of clover after turnips and barley, and of course these lands, which were long deemed unsuitable for wheat, by receiving this crop on a clover-ley, are found to be as productive of this valuable grain as soils of a stronger class. Lastly, the great command of manure which that part of Surrey that lies near the metropolis or the Thames possesses; and the cheapness of chalk and lime in the other parts of the county, no doubt, induce the farmers to introduce a wheat crop more frequently than they would do if they were not possessed of these advantages."

Extent in Cultivation.-P. 203. "What the extent of land annually under wheat amounts to, it is impossible to ascertain; and on this, as well as on other topics where there are no grounds for forming a statement or opinion, I shall not hazard a random, a useless, and perhaps worse than useless conjecture."-This is a sound principle of report.

Succession of Wheat.-P. 203. "Wheat in Surrey follows, 1. a complete summer-fallow; 2. a bastard-fallow after tares, clover-ley, or woad" (Weld); "3. beans or pease; 4. clover-ley; 5. turnips; and sometimes, but very seldom, it follows oats:"-and, p. 205, " is seldom sown after turneps.'

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Manure for Wheat.-P. 206. " In the Weald, stable and yard dung, and lime, are used for the summer-fallow on the clays in the other parts of the county, the same kind of manure, and lime or chalk, are used; though, as has been already remarked, these clays get by no means their proportion of manure. Sheep are folded on the fallows in some parts, especially where there is a portion of Downs attached to the farm. Five hundred sheep will manure an acre in about seven days. Clover-leys are sometimes manured in the spring; sometimes in the autumn, just before they are ploughed; and sometimes, instead of manure being spread upon them, sheep are folded on them, either before they are ploughed or afterwards."

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P. 514. In the management of their composts, the Surrey farmers are very careful and skilful, as well as economical in the materials of which they compose them. The scrapings of the roads, the scourings of the ditches or ponds, the superabundant mould of the head-lands, are carefully collected and mixed up, either with the rich manure from London, with the farm-yard manure, or with chalk, and often with them all."

Herbaceous Manure.-P. 508. "Ploughing in green crops is not now much in use in Surrey: to feed them off on the ground is found to benefit the succeeding crop much more, and to be much less troublesome and expensive. In some parts of the county, however, tares, and occasionally buck-wheat and rape are ploughed in; and I met with one instance in the neighbourhood of Guildford, where a very strong and luxuriant crop of charlock was ploughing in on a thin light soil upon chalk, for wheat."

To those who have read, with attention, the above intelligent notices, concerning the manures in use, in the County of Surrey, it were superfluous to remark that Mr. Stevenson's report of them is mostly satisfactory.

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many other counties. In the first place, the soil of the Weald, or vale land, which forms no inconsiderable proportion of the county, is of such a nature as to require frequent summer-fallowing: where this is necessary, the farmer must have recourse to wheat, in order to pay him for the want of a crop, and for the great expense that he has incurred; and as lands which most require a summer-fallow, viz. strong wet clay, are peculiarly adapted for wheat, the farmer is led also by this consideration to sow this grain very extensively. In the second place, the general rotation on the light lands brings in a crop of clover after turnips and barley, and of course these lands, which were long deemed unsuitable for wheat, by receiving this crop on a clover-ley, are found to be as productive of this valuable grain as soils of a stronger class. Lastly, the great command of manure which that part of Surrey that lies near the metropolis or the Thames possesses; and the cheapness of chalk and lime in the other parts of the county, no doubt, induce the farmers to introduce a wheat crop more frequently than they would do if they were not possessed of these advantages."

Extent in Cultivation.-P. 203. "What the extent of land annually under wheat amounts to, it is impossible to ascertain; and on this, as well as on other topics where there are no grounds for forming a statement or opinion, I shall not hazard a random, a useless, and perhaps worse than useless conjecture."-This is a sound principle of report.

Succession of Wheat.-P. 203. "Wheat in Surrey follows, 1. a complete summer-fallow; 2. a bastard-fallow after tares, clover-ley, or woad" (Weld); "3. beans or pease; 4. clover-ley; 5. turnips; and sometimes, but very seldom, it follows oats:"-and, p. 205, "is seldom sown after turneps."

Manure for Wheat.-P. 206. "In the Weald, stable and yard dung, and lime, are used for the summer-fallow: on the clays in the other parts of the county, the same kind of manure, and lime or chalk, are used; though, as has been already remarked, these clays get by no means their proportion of manure. Sheep are folded on the fallows in some parts, attached t an acre

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P. 514. In the management of their composts, the Surrey farmers are very careful and skilful, as well as economical in the materials of which they compose them. The scrapings of the roads, the scourings of the ditches or ponds, the superabundant mould of the head-lands, are carefully collected and mixed up, either with the rich manure from London, with the farm-yard manure, or with chalk, and often with them all."

Herbaceous Manure.-P. 508. "Ploughing in green crops is not now much in use in Surrey: to feed them off on the ground is found to benefit the succeeding crop much more, and to be much less troublesome and expensive. In some parts of the county, however, tares, and occasionally buck-wheat and rape are ploughed in; and I met with one instance in the neighbourhood of Guildford, where a very strong and luxuriant crop of charlock was ploughing in on a thin light soil upon chalk,

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To those who have read, with attention, the above intelligent notices, concerning the manures in use, in the County of Surrey, it were superfluous to remark that Mr. Stevenson's report of them is mostly satisfactory.

SEMINATION.-Drilling.-P. 157. "The drill husbandry can hardly be said to be extending itself, even in that part of Surrey where it it has been practised for some years. It appears to have been introduced, or at least recommended, to the notice of the farmers on the sandy loams in the western division of the county, by the late Mr. Ducket, of Esher, who is well known to have been a strong advocate for drilling all sorts of grain, to have followed it extensively on his own farm, and to have invented many machines for drilling and hoeing the crops.

"At present, the drill husbandry is almost entirely confined to the parishes of Bagshot, Chobham, Ockham, Cobham, Esher, Send, Ripley, Bramley, and the district immediately adjoining, and is seldom practised, except on light loams, or sandy soils. It does not appear to have established itself generally in any part of Surrey to the eastward of these parishes."

ARABLE CROPS.

WHEAT. This important object of husbandry is treated of analytically, and at an irrequisite length. It is too long, I mean to say, as a report of the practice of a County, and too short as a general treatise on the culture of wheat.

Reasons for its Cultivation, in Surrey.-P. 202. "There are several circumstances, which render the cultivation of wheat in Surrey more general and extensive than it is in

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many other counties. In the first place, the soil of the Weald, or vale land, which forms no inconsiderable proportion of the county, is of such a nature as to require frequent summer-fallowing: where this is necessary, the farmer must have recourse to wheat, in order to pay him for the want of a crop, and for the great expense that he has incurred,; and as lands which most require a summer-fallow, viz. strong wet clay, are peculiarly adapted for wheat, the farmer is led also by this consideration to sow this grain very extensively. In the second place, the general rotation on the light lands brings in a crop of clover after turnips and barley, and of course these lands, which were long deemed unsuitable for wheat, by receiving this crop on a clover-ley, are found to be as productive of this valuable grain as soils of a stronger class. Lastly, the great command of manure which that part of Surrey that lies near the metropolis or the Thames possesses; and the cheapness of chalk and lime in the other parts of the county, no doubt, induce the farmers to introduce a wheat crop more frequently than they would do if they were not possessed of these advantages."

Extent in Cultivation.-P. 203. "What the extent of land annually under wheat amounts to, it is impossible to ascertain; and on this, as well as on other topics where there are no grounds for forming a statement or opinion, I shall not hazard a random, a useless, and perhaps worse than useless conjecture."-This is a sound principle of report.

Succession of Wheat.-P. 203. "Wheat in Surrey follows, 1. a complete summer-fallow; 2. a bastard-fallow after tares, clover-ley, or woad" (Weld); "3. beans or pease; 4. clover-ley; 5. turnips; and sometimes, but very seldom, it follows oats:"-and, p. 205, " is seldom sown after turneps."

Manure for Wheat.-P. 206. "In the Weald, stable and yard dung, and lime, are used for the summer-fallow: on the clays in the other parts of the county, the same kind of manure, and lime or chalk, are used; though, as has been already remarked, these clays get by no means their proportion of manure. Sheep are folded on the fallows in some parts, especially where there is a portion of Downs attached to the farm. Five hundred sheep will manure an acre in about seven days. Clover-leys are sometimes manured in the spring; sometimes in the autumn, just before they are ploughed; and sometimes, instead of manure being spread upon them, sheep are folded on them, either before they are ploughed or afterwards."

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