e; for we doubt if
the cure recently propounded as infallible on the faith of one or two
successful experiments--that of leaving the potatoes covered up during
winter in the field where they grew--will be in all cases followed by the
wished-for results. We hope, however, that many will try it.

Of horses we could have wished to say something had our space permitted;
but we can only refer to what is said of the rearing and intelligence of
the horse towards the beginning of the second volume, and to the chapter
on _breaking in young draught horses_, in p. 691 of the same volume.

We come now to the third volume, which commences the operations of
summer--a season which brings with it new cares, especially to the dairy
farmer, and where the turnip husbandry prevails. It is true that, in
summer, when all his seeds are in the ground, the farmer has a little
leisure during which he may leave his farm, but even then any excursion he
makes ought not to be for mere pleasure. A true farmer will have his eyes
about him wherever he travels, and will carefully study the merits of the
rural customs of every district he goes to. There is much truth in the
following remarks:--

"Summer is the only season in which the farmer has liberty to leave
home without incurring the blame of neglecting his business, and even
then the time which he has to spare is very limited. There is only
about a fortnight between finishing the fallow, the turnip and potato
culture, and hay-making, and the commencement of harvest, in which
the farmer has leisure to travel. This limitation of time is to be
regretted, because it is proper that he should take a journey every
year, and see how farm operations are conducted in other parts of the
kingdom. An excursion of this nature is seldom undertaken by a
farmer, who is generally a man capable of observation, without
acquiring some hints which may induce the adoption of a practice that
seems good, or the rejection of one which is bad. Such a journey
exhibits mankind in various aspects, and elevates the mind above
local prejudices; and as husbandry is a progressive art, a ramble of
a week or two through different parts of the country, cannot fail to
enlighten the mind of the most experienced farmer much beyond any
thing he can observe by always remaining at home."--(Vol. iii. p.
742.)

In his excellent chapter on the sowing o