General View of the Agriculture of the North Riding of Yorkshire; Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 edition. Excerpt: ...air, will spread, and get strength fast; and the tares springing again, will with the seeds form in a short time a most excellent pasture for sheep. If the tares are wholly eat off by sheep, they should not be turned in until the ground is got well covered by the crop, and in such numbers as to keep it moderately eat down: by this management, a prodigious number of sheep may be kept, in proportion to the quantity of land; by which means a great return of manure is obtained, to the improvement of the seeds. I find it the best practice, not to sow the seeds until a month or six weeks after the last ploughing; in the fore part of that time, the land should be manured, if necessary, with short manure, and repeated-opportunities taken in dry weather, to harrow it well; and it should be once rolled; by these means the weeds are destroyed, the land gets a considerable degree of firmness, the Bxwre U well mixed with the toil which lies within reach of the roots of the grass, About Halnaby, they sow hay-seeds and red clover on their worst land, and let it lie about twelve years, and manure it, whilst young, with fold-yard manure. Kind, and Quality of Seed.--The general practice is td sow white clover, trefoil, rib-grass, and hay-seeds, with, which, some mix red clover; some others sow rye-grass instead of hay-seeds. It is common to sow from ten to fourteen poundsof small seeds per acre, about half of which is white clover. John Dowker, of Salton, sows, of white clover fourteen pounds, and of trefoil, rib-grass, and red clover, mixed together, seven pounds, and one quarter of hay-seeds, or, in lieu of the hay-seeds, two bushels of rye-grass: this is often upon a rich strong soil. E. Cleaver Sows twenty bushels of well-dressed hay-seeds, ten pounds...