. 43* Improvtments in las Ma]iliys Tarm. at TVind/br. 



A dry fiieltered fpot is felefted, and focls of maiden earth, a foot deep, arc laid over 

 the fpace of a very large fold. It is then bedded thinly with ruflics, leaves of trees, 

 fern,mofs, fliort ftraw, or Hubble ; and in hard or wet weather, the flock, inflead of 

 being penned npon the clover in the open fields, is put into the warmer fold, where the 

 ufual quantity of hay is g^ven-fo thdfi^ in racks ; an^ every night they are fo penned, 

 the fold is frefh littered. When this has been continued, at intervals, during the win- 

 ter, a layer of lime, chalk, rubble, or allies, fix inches thick, is fpread over the whole 

 furfacc — and when it liaa heated together, about the month of April, the whole is turned 

 up, and mixed together, and makes the very heft manure that can be ufed for turncps. 



I have been particular in defcribing thefe methods of folding, as they are not common 

 in any place, and in others entirely unknown, and to Gentlemen who have parks and 

 large plantations which afford abundance of leaves, this hint may be the more deferving 

 attention. 



Upon the Norfolk faM, the land hot having been yet marled or clayed, the clover 

 is apt fometimes to fail, which is alfo the cafe elfewhere, upon the fame fort of land. 

 When this happens, his Majefty does what every other pcrfon in a fimilar fituation 

 fliould do ; inftcad of letting the ground remain unproduftive, the next year it is 

 fowed with vetches, which are nearly as valuable as the clover, and wheat always grows 

 remarkably kind after them. 



As to implements, the Norfolk plough is chiefly what is ufed ; and upon alight (oil,. 

 it is certainly preferable to any other. It ploughs a cleaner furrow, by completely 

 moving the whole body »f eai-th, and inverts it much better than any other plough ; and 

 to eflablifli its fuperiority over the common ploughs of the neighbourhood, I need only 

 add, that from its confl;ru£lion it is nearly the draught of an ox eafier. There is like- 

 wife a Norfolk harrow, very ufeful tor harrowing what are called brnfli-turneps, or any 

 other turneps, preparatory to their being hoed. I muft be allowed, likewife, to mention 

 the thill -roller which confifls of caft- iron rings, made at the Norwich founderv, and 

 flipt on upon a round piece of wood, as an axle-tree. This is one of the heft things- 

 that has been introduced, for the preparation of the land for any fort of corn, where 

 the foil will admit of its being ufed. By the corn being fo well depofited, it takes 

 better root, and at leafl; one fourth of the quantity ufually fown may be faved. 



The Flcmifli farm, which I have before mentioned, was fo named from an intention, 

 at firft;, of carrying on a fyflem of hufbandry fimilar to that praftifed in Flanders, 

 which confifls of an alternate crop for man and beafl ; but the foil being ffrong and co- 

 hefivc, upon trial,, it has been . found to anfwer befl: under a four-courfe fhift, more like 

 feme parts of Gloucellerfhire ; as thus — fird year, wheat ; fecond, cabbage or clover; 

 third, oats ; fourth, beans. The quantity of arable land of this farm is one and fixty 

 "acres, or forty acres in a fhift. There are two things obferved upon this farm, which 



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