The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-08-01

proportion TO the number IN proportion to the num-
OF its inhabitants. Der Of their cultivators.
The is the caufe of the other. Becaufe we
have more land than they, we are not 70 completely
under the neceEty of making tie n79f ont gift, that
can. Hence have not 70 much recourfe to thofe
ingenious expedicnts, which to the cultivator,
what his machines to the manufacturers; contrbu-
ting TO render the fare quantity of labour much
tyodrive. Such expedients good aanares proper
leeeEfon of crops, the thorough working of the land
draining, watering, the economy OF CATTLE &c. &c,
But though theie expedents 70 efentially
eeGary to moR of us they in Britain, it is
mot obvious interen praaife them. Yet how
few among us, who can boa0 of rivalling the Eng
lh improvements
Fortunate is it for us that there are 70 few cottag-
Us poor Millward. But is there cottager in
Virginia Whole farm betresk the fame KILL * whole
wife dIplays the fame nduhry!
From PArEss" bubised BY the 1fa1atJzeits Society
Jar Pr0nofing Agriculture
ExfraH from an of 70 cottagers cultivation IN
Shropfbre, in England; BY Sir WILLIAM PuLr-
NEY, Bart taken jror tie 26N report of!Le Soci-
ETY. for lettering the coalition, and ncreafng the
comforts Of The Poor; dated May, 1905.
WITHIN Fl miles of Shrewsbury, co,tager
whole is RICHARD MILLwAaD, has houie
aud adjoining 10 it, garden and land; making a
bout ard one fxrenf5 of acre, including the
garden. He is a collier; and the management OF the
ground is in great meafire left to his wife. The
foil thin covering Of about three four inches
of flrong loarr, clay impregnated with iron,
aud eonfdered as the WORT foil. They pay three
fillings erlng of yearly for the houe and land
1t was eaed to them 3e years ago for three lives
Of which is dead.
The wife has managed the ground in a particular
manner for thirteen years, with potatoes and wheat
chiefly by her own ahour; and in a way which has
yielded good crops fully equal rather fuperior to
~. .>-~I~a of tina ..l,
or no expen(e.
The foa.oe and 5o5ea. land exeluive of the garden)
contains digging poles of land, eight yards
fquare to the POLE, twenty-five of which make
acre. and is divided into two parts. One of the d.
viiions fe plants alternately with potatoes and the
other is fovn with wheat. On the wheat llubbe ihe
plants potatoes in yoyy; and flows wheat the po,a-
toe ground. She puts irg in the bottom of the
where ie plants the potatoes but ufes DING for the
wheat. And he has repeated this Iccefion for
y the thirteen years. bne with better ee1G and
es2roa,y during TIE !at FIX feven years
She provides manure, by keeping pig, and by
collecting al! the he from her bogf, and
by r,ixng with it the Eraing, IF tbs rOadt, &C. She
forms it into b-zt end it, before fe puts on
her ground for potatoes.
The ground is dug for potatoes in the month of
March and April 20 rhe dep,h of about nine inches
(fhis digging would cot fix pence per POLE if hired.)
after putting in the dung, the potatoes planted in
rows about twelve fourteen inebeJ HfInt. The ets
placed aboat four or FIVE inches apart in the
rows
When the potatoes obove ground, the zveea are
denroyed by the hoe; and the earth laid up on bot5
faes THE Loo And this is repeated FROM time to
time, as the ieaion requires Hand wedding is alto u
fed when eoeiary.
In the month of Oto5ey when the potatoes are ripe
ie takes off all the taks Tor haulm) of the potatoe;
which The lecures, to produce by of her
pig. She now goes over the whole with rake, and
takes on ali weeds taking up Pc
tatoes, The flows her wheat much of the ground
as he clear of porstoes Net day. They are taken
up with three pronged FORKS in which her huband
aihs; and by the ar operation, the 7Vbeat is eO1erei
dep. She leaves it quite roye5 and the ro mellows
the earth; and by the earth falling down, it adds
much ttrength and vigour the wheat plants in
fpring Her crops of wheat have been of late always
good; and even this year (Which in this country has
not been favourable for the wheat orop,) flie has
tlralhed fifteen Winchester buhels from thirty
four poes though part of her wheat has uifered by
the mildew. The F,47v Of her wheat ihe carefully
Preerves for lite, to her pig, and to increae her
Hws When her potatoes are gathered, The leparates
the be for ufe, then proper quantity for feed, and
the fmall potatoes are given TO her pig
She has fifteen poles for her ga,drn upon which
fe plants peas beans, and part with cabbages; but
has early potatoes and urnps the fame year tie fame
ground She fel!s her early potatoes, and peas and
cabbages, and boils the turnips for her pig.
The only other expenfe of feeding her Fig is two
three bulhels OF peas; and when fit to kill, it weighs
about three hundred pounds. She buys it the age
Of four five months, about the month of February
and is killed about the month Of January in the fol-
lowing year.
When fhe irt began this method of alternate crops,
and for everal years after, e depended the neigh
bourng farmers for poughing the land & narrowing
both for the potaoes and wheat; but the farmers
naturally delayed work for her, till their work
chiefly over, her land not plsrghed in proper
feafon. She has been for the Ian x years ndspsnd-
ent Of the farmer.
She is careful 57p mo,e land at time, than fhe
can clear Of potatoes that day.
ORDINATIONS ~ THE SAME WRITER.
This mode Of culture proves, that potatoes and
wheat can be produt ed alternately upon the fame
land, fo, long eoarf If ysars, provided that fma