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An Abridgment of the Six Weeks, and Six Months Tour's of Arthur Young, Esq; through the Southern, and Northern Counties of England and Part of Wales. Containing, all the most important articles of information relating to agriculture, now in practice in the most cultivated counties, with some account of the successful culture of lucerne, cabbages, &c. &c. Intended for the use of the common farmers of Ireland.
Author
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.
Date Added
11 January 2014
Format
Book
Language
English
Publish Date
1771
Publisher
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, in Dame-Street, Printer to the Society.
Source
McGarrity Books.
Topic
Agriculture > England. Agriculture > Wales. England, Northern > Description and travel. Wales > Description and travel.
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46 AQAVBRIDGMENT as ‘rm:
bandry has no general caufe in the nature of llfldl
the foil ; on the contrary, it IS in many pla- “‘P5t‘
ces’in’ferior to other methods; for they fal; & tntlal
low, as I have already mmuted, where the i “ii”
. land is perfe6tly welladapted to-turnip: and i lilo
clover; in which cafe there’ fhould be no fal- . loll"
lowing, but barley Town after turnipx, and W‘
‘wheat after clover. I fhall beg leave to 90"‘
add to this view of the praaices in this ex- ii”
tent of country, whichnothing lefs than W“!
our au'thor’s indefatigable zeal could have i -ll”
furnifhed, that by reviewing this inForma- : “”
tion; we fhall Tee, that the coun'ties highefl i l“?
in cultivation, never falldw at all, male a “'1
degree inferior, fallow for llarlry, to the in- ll
troduation of clover, which is to befutceeded l‘
by -wbcar-., and where fallows are general,l F
that very fewdiof the improvements which
‘the lafi 30 or 40 years have" produced, are r
any where in compleat ufe: To that we find, C?
in proportion as fallows are in praelice, high l’
‘cultivation and produ6tions diminiih.-I
with the 'farmer of Ireland wouldiattend to ;
this "important, very important information; T
‘and not becpaufe fallowing for wheat is aivery
general praelice in many parts i"of'Englaml,
and all over Ireland, purfue .it‘“i1'nalterably. ‘V
t . to the encreafing his own poverty, and the :
public injury. ‘
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LE3. P. After recapitulating the courfes"o‘F -crops
zgop D, ‘in Fevcral) coimIies,. the molt advantageous of
-Ed p.2o3;”whichpatre already (fated in their ropet“pla-
Icepsfiin ‘this .ab‘rid'gment. Mr. Xyoung iays,
' this articleof cropping judiciouily; is of infi-
inite importance. No courfecan ‘exceed that E
of tufnipzr, bzzrley, claw)‘, wbemt, when the
land
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