62 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Should their marie or manure g® 

 down, it is eafier brought up than when 

 funk in a deeper furrow, where the air 

 and weather can have little or no influ- 

 ence. 



If ground is floney, it will be clear- 

 ed with lefs or more trouble in propor- 

 tion to the deepnefs the plough runs. 



That fhallow ploughing will bring al- 

 ways the earlieft crops, which are found, 

 at lead in all cold countries, to be the 

 beft. 



That the farmers in Norfolk are in a 

 better channel of improvement than their 

 forefathers, none will doubt who knows 

 how much the rents and wealth of that 

 county are increafed. But fome may al- 

 ledge, that, if they ploughed deeper, the 

 improvement would be greater. I doubt 

 greatly of this, when I compare the 

 foil and rent paid by them with the 

 foil and rent paid in other parts of 

 England ; for in Norfolk there are 

 large tradls of land for which the 

 farmer pays to the landlord twenty 

 Ihillings per flatute-acre j and when this 



is 



