A review of the reports to the Board of agriculture

"In breeding hogs, nothing should be more attended to than warmth and cleanliness; without these, the most liberal allowance of food will not avail; and as there is a great difference in the quantity of food necessary to support hogs of different sorts, though of the same age and size, experiments are wanting to ascertain their different degrees of perfection.”—Again,—"The writer of this Report has been in the habit of folding hogs on his pasture land, feeding them with raw potatoes.

"The improvement of the land has been astonishing; and when hogs are kept on a large scale, the practice cannot be too warmly recommended."

RABBITS.-P. 150. "Some years since there were many warrens in this district, but the only ones now left are, Charter-House, Temple-Down, and Ubly, containing about sixteen hundred acres. Both the flesh and skin of the rabbits, bred on these warrens, are much esteemed; and they sell, when in season, (that is, from November to January) for two shillings and six-pence a couple, skins included."

POULTRY.-P.150. "The great demand in Bristol and Bath naturally induces an attention to the rearing and fattening of all kinds of fowls. Of late it has been found that potatoes, boiled and mixed with the skimmings of the pot, or with any other fat or greasy substance, is the cheapest food that can be given to all kinds of poultry, and fattens them in a few days, making the flesh of a most delicate colour and flavour."

BEES.-P. 150. "It is to be regretted that these useful insects are so little attended to.'

Suppose in each parish of the county there were kept only ten hives, and the average produce of each hive was twenty pounds of honey, this would amount at the present price to near five thousand a year, besides the value of the

wax."

THE END.

Mr. MARSHALL'S other WORKS on RURAL ECONOMY.

In two Volumes, Octavo, price 15s. in Boards,

MINUTES and EXPERIMENTS on, AGRICULTURE; Containing his own Practice in the Southern Counties; and moreover conveying, to practical Men in general, an accurate Method of acquiring Agricultural Knowledge, scientifically, from the Results of their Experience.

In twelve Volumes, Octavo, price 41. in Boards,

The established Practices of the higher Orders of Professional Men, in the six Agricultural Departments of England:

The Practice of the Northern Department being shown, in the RURAL ECONOMY of YORKSHIRE; price 12s.

That of the Western Department, in the RURAL ECONOMY of GLOCESTERSHIRE; price 12s.

That of the Central Department, in the RURAL ECONOMY of the MIDLAND COUNTTES; price 14s.

That of the Eastern Department, in the RURAL ECONOMY of NORFOLK; price 12s.

That of the Southern Department, in the RURAL ECONOMY of the SOUTHERN COUNTIES; price 15s.

That of the South-western Department, in the RURAL ECONOMY of the WEST of ENGLAND; price 15s.

13. }

In two Volumes, Octavo, price 16s. in Boards,

A general Work on PLANTING and RURAL ORNAMENT; with the Management of WOODLANDS and HEDGEROW TIMBER

In one Volume, Quarto, price 21. 28. in Boards,

An elementary and practical TREATISE on the LANDED PROPERTY of ENGLAND: Comprizing the Purchase, the Improvement, and the executive Management of Landed Estates; and moreover containing what relates to the general Concerns of PROPRIETORS, and to such Subjects of Political Economy, as are intimately connected with the LANDED INTEREST.

In one Volume, Octavo, price 10s. 6d. in Boards,

A general Work on the MANAGEMENT of LANDED ESTATES; being an ABSTRACT of the above Treatise; for the Use of professional Men: including whatever relates to the BUSINESS of Estate Agency; whether it be employed in the Purchase, the Improvement, or the executive Management of Estates.

M m 2

Also,

In one Volume, Octavo, price 12s. in boards,

With an INTRODUCTION; showing-1. The ORIGIN and PRO-
GRESS of the BOARD of AGRICULTURE. 2. The PLAN and EXECUTION
of the REPORTS. 3. The requisite QUALIFICATIONS of a REPORTER.
4. The PLAN of the REVIEW; and the Advantages of proceeding
by DEPARTMENTS-together with the OUTLINES of the six
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENTS into which ENGLAND naturally
separates.

INDEX.

Cichory, 335.

AFTER Grass, see Grass Land, Cider, see Orchards, xiii.

Clark's Herefordshire, 261.

Climature, iv.

Appearance, Herefordshire, 264. Clover, see Herbage, xii.

xii.

Agriculture, ix.

Appropriation, v.

Arable Crops, xi.

Clwyd, Vale of, 163.

Coals, v.