A COMPENDIUM OF MODERN HUSBANDRY, PRINCIPALLY WRITTEN DURING A SURVEY OF SURREY Made at the desire of the Board of Agriculture; IN WHICH IS COMPRISED AN ANALYSIS OF MANURES Shewing their Chemical Contents, and the proper application of them ALSO AN ESSAY ON TIMBER Exhibiting a view of the increasing scarcity of that important Article, with TOGETHER WITH A VARIETY OF MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS BY JAMES MALCOLM, Land Surveyor to their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, VOL. III. Argumentum locuples habui. Strada Prol. Acad. London: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY C. AND R. BALDWIN, NEW BRIDGE-STREET. AGRICULTURE OF THE COUNTY OF SURREY. GRASSES, MEADOWS, AND PASTURES.. SURREY is not particularly famed for an at tentive regard to the formation, or to the productiveness of its meadows and pastures. Being every where more or less undulated, with no considerable tract of level country in any one, part of it, its po sition seems to bespeak it more of a corn than a grazing or a dairy county. There are, however, some parts of it where the system of meadows is well understood, where irrigation is uniformly practised, and its consequences carefully marked; such are those in Oxted, Tanridge, Crowhurst, and Lingfield parishes on the eastern side of the county, and the long famed Runneymead and other common meads of so valuable a quality, which by bordering on the Thames, were they in severality, would by proper management necessarily make no inconsiderable figure, as before the late inclosures of Walton and Weybridge parishes, they amounted together to near 1200 acres. There is |