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ij/Z?/y. What new improvements have you made 

 or adopted in implements of hufbandry ? 



To the above Queries the Sheriff of the county 

 of Suffolk favoured the Society with the following 

 Anfwers ; which he informed them were given him 

 by a very good farmer, and approved by all who 

 had feen them. 



^0 thefirft and fecond, — Good ilrong mixed foil. 

 Wheat on clover-lay, after one year, once ploughed, 

 and fown broadcaft, with ten pecks per acre, well 

 harrowed in ; — average produce, from three quar- 

 ters and a half to four quarters per acre. 



To prepare for Turnips, the year following, 

 fummer-till the land; turn in the wheat-ftubble 

 about December a moderate depth, and let it reft 

 till the March following; harrow it well ; then turn 

 it in fomewhat deeper, below the firfl ploughing, 

 the deeper the better; for turnips thrive beft where 

 there is a plenty of deep mould. In May repeat the 

 harrowing, and turn it up with a fine rift balk. 

 After it has taken the benefit of the fun, harrow it 

 down, and gather out the fpire-grafs, &c. which 

 Ihould be burnt in heaps upon the land. If it be 

 not clean, repeat this a fecond time; then give it 

 a clean earth, and harrow it down. Manure it 



with 



