. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 746 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt III. field ; which, for want of moio frequent ploughing, was probably not of the servic
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 746 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt III. field ; which, for want of moio frequent ploughing, was probably not of the service it otherwise might have been. Part of the land was afterwards sown down with oats and grass seeds ; the former of which afforded but a moderate crop, the latter a very good one, and has since produced two loads, 120 stones each, per acre. The seeds sown were rye-grass, rib-grass, white clover, and trefoil; of these, the first succeeded amazingly, the others not so well; potatoes throve very well; turnips not equal to them. A farm-house has been built upon it, which now, alng with five acres more of the same kind of land, is let on lease at thirty pounds per annum. The soil consisted, in general, of benty peat, upon red gritstone, with a mixture of clay upon limestone; this last is, in some places, at a considerable depth, in others, sufficiently near the surface for lime to be burnt on the premises. 4540. Finlaysotis rid-plough (§ 2605.) has been found a valuable implement in breaking up heath and moorlands, in Scotland. Sect. V. Peat Mosses, Bogs, and Morasses, and their Improvement. 4541. Mossy and hoggy surfaces occupy a very considerable portion of the British Isles. In Ireland alone tliere are of flat red bog, capable of being converted to the general purposes of agriculture, 1,576,000 acres ; and of peat soil, covering mountains, capable of being improved for pasture, or beneficially applied to the purposes of plant- ation, 1,255,000 acres, making together nearly thre
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