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3d Year— Oats. 



Produce 16 or 20 bushels per acre. 



No Clover — The soil will not support it. If sown, it gradually 

 declines through want of sustenance. 



Here ends the cropping without Barton manure. Mr. Walwyn, 

 of Kilmersdon parish, fourteen or fifteen years ago tried sansfoin in 

 this soil. The produce from mowing four or five years successively 

 averaged twenty cwt. per acre. It so far exists now in some of. 

 these lands, as to keep up their value to twelve or fourteen shillings 

 per acre. Where totally extinct, on breaking up afresh the soil is 

 found in better proof than in its pristine state. Notwithstanding 

 this experiment, accompanied with effects so obviously beneficial; 

 yet the example has been but very little, if at all, followed in the 

 neighbourhood, although surrounded by a thousand acres of a 

 similar quality. However, a gentleman of large fortune, and pro- 

 prietor of the greatest part of this barren district in the same parish, 

 has, for two or three years past, attempted its melioration, by sum- 

 mer fallowing and turnips, to some parts of which he gives four 

 ploughings and harrowings. Its texture is already considerably 

 loosened. Barns, flailing, and bartons are provided on a large 

 scale, in a situation to command the whole. Within a reasonable 

 distance he can procure a supply of sand : a resource too valuable to 

 be overlooked. With a relish for agricultural improvement, a 

 practical attention to its progress, and the conveniencies before- 

 mentioned, there is little doubt, but that in the course of time, he 

 will be enabled, in no trifling degree, by a judicious system of 

 cropping, to fertilife this very intractable soil. 



This district abounds with coal, and with respect to this article 

 is reducible to the separate divisions of northern and southern. 



The former, including the parishes of High Littleton, Tims- 

 bory, Paulton, (with Clutton adjoining to the west, and Camerton 

 to the east of the district) Radstock, and the northern part of 

 Midsomer Norton. 



The latter, the southern part of Midsomer Norton, Stratton on 

 the Foss, (Holcombe and Ashwick adjoining the district) and Kil- 

 mersdon. 



In the northern, the strata of coal form an inclination of the 

 plane of about nine inches in the yard. These are in number nine- 

 teen. 



