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Two crops and a fallow, is the generally prevailing fvflem 

 of huifbandry; though the mofl: intelligent farmer, will 

 fometimes vary this mode, by fowing clover with the barley, 

 which flands as an etch crop in the place of oats ; this is 

 either fed with iheep, or mown for hay; it lies for fheep 

 food dm-ing the next fallow feafon, is broken up in the 

 fpring following, and planted with peas or beans ; kept well 

 hoed during the fummer, and fucceeded by wheat in the 

 etch, or fecond crop field; it is then fallowed for barley: 

 this practice is found to anfwer extremely well, though in 

 the open common fields, it mufl: ever be confined to the 

 flock matters, otherwife their Iheep would feed upon the 

 green wheat until Lady-day, and fpoil the crop. 



Weld is occafionally cultivated for the manufa£lure of 

 checque and fuuian; its culture is fimply that of tranf- 

 planting from the feed beds at Midfummer ; (lands all 

 winter, and is the fummer following, when in full bloom, 

 cut, dried, and laid up for ufe. The foil it favours moll, 

 is a ftiff flrong loam, moderately mohl, but not wet. The 

 price from four-pence to eight-pence per (lone. The raa- 

 nufadture abovementioned is carried on to a confiderable 

 extent, but the effe6l it has had oh the agriculture of this 

 parifh, by inviting a great number of fettlers, has been fo 

 far unfavourable, as to occafion a confiderable increafe in 

 the poor's rates wiiliin the laft five years. 



The land lying fouth-weft, weft, and northerly of the 

 village of STURMER, Is a heavy ftrong foil, of a good 

 flaple, upon a blue, or on a brown clay. North-eafterly 

 from the village, and binding upon the brook, is a well 

 mixed gravelly loam, of a good flaple, upon a gravel. 

 Proceeding thence fouth-eaft, and northerly, on the Hopes of 

 the hills that rife on each fide from the brook, the foil in- 

 creafes in its fir ength, and rells upon a chalky clay. The 



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