]84 AGRICULTURAL WRUFERS. 



Gayer, by whom he had two daughters and one son. He died in i 73_i at 

 the age of eighty-one, and a monumental inscription on the south wall of 

 Rougham Church records his many virtues.^ 



The book opens with an address to the reader bearing upon the tex<- 

 that a man must know his Creator before he betake himself to any 

 worldly affairs, for without this knowledge "he ploweth and soweth in 

 vain." The soils of Flanders and England are compared, and the value 

 of flax extolled. The cost of preparing the land for this crop is put at 

 ;^I56 for 25 acres, and the return at ^^918. Turnips are thought to be a 

 valuable crop, but to make cattle eat them it w^as considered necessary 

 " to breed them up from their dams bv hand," and horses had been seen 

 that declined grass directly sliced carrots were put before them, which 

 they ate like hogs. (I believe some of the railway companies feed their 

 horses largely on carrots to-day.) In Flanders, it is stated, they have a 

 kind of sheep that ordinarily bring five or six lambs apiece by feeding 

 the ewes with roots, and he recommends the same breed to be brought 

 over here. The Bruges capon is stated to be as large as two English 

 capons. " The veal, too, is very white, because the calves are given as 

 much new milk as they can drink twice a day." The pigeons were fed 

 with buckwheat and flax, which made them breed apace. It is suggested 

 that all this information is very useful for a younger brother to know, 

 that he may keep himself properly until he attained to his eldest 

 brother's estate. The culture of flax is next detailed. A way to make 

 infinite proht by skarots — carrots are probably intended — and all about 

 Roman beans, which are made out to be very remunerative. This 

 portion of the book finishes with a statement referring the reader to the 

 elaborate treatise which follows on the management of fish, written by a 

 person of honour and great worth in the county of Norfolk. 



SOCIETY FOR IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE IN 

 AGRICULTURE IN SCOTLAND. 



The photograph on page 183 refers to an intelligently written book 

 of 173 printed pages, containing chapters upon the various subjects 

 mentioned, with others on weaving, bleaching, and spinning, and 

 references to many Acts applying specially to planting and 

 manufacturing linen cloth, w'ith diagrams of French and Dutch looms, 

 and tools for flax dressing, and the upkeep of highways, bridges and 

 ferries. 



* " The Autobiography of the Hon. Roger North." Edited by Augustus Jessopp, D.D. 

 London. 1887. 8s. Another edition in "The Lives of the Norths." Edited by A. Jessopp. 

 V'oL 3. Bohn's Standard Library. 1890. 



