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horfes, and drivers, are provided by the farmers ; and when 

 the weather proves favourable, and the corn a fair (landing 

 crop, a man will cut, and in, fixteen acres of winter and 

 fummer corn in the courfe of a month ; as was the cafe in 

 the year 1793 ; previous to which time, and when the harveft- 

 men were boarded by the farmers in the ufual manner, 

 twelve acres per man were rarely known to be harvefted in 

 the fame time, from the fame land. 



The foil in general in the pariOi of BIRDBROOK, is 

 extremely various; but the moft ftriking difference is found 

 along the courfe of the river Stour, where, from a quarter 

 to half a mile in width, a well ftapled gravelly loam pre- 

 vails. South and rifmg towards Whitley, the land becomes 

 heavier, and forms upon the higheft levels, a clofe cold 

 earth, upon a chalky clay, below which clay at irregular 

 depths, are found veins of pure blue clay, and fome gravel. 

 Thence foutherly, and defcending towards the principal 

 branch of the river Colne, a more gentle foil is difcoverable 

 upon a brown clay. 



Soot has been tried, and found efFe£lual againfl: mofs, in 

 Baythorm Park : it is applied in Noveinber, at the rate of 

 forty bufhels per acre, the firfl coft of which is 6d. per bufhel. 



The land in this parifh is particularly favourable to the 

 growth of oak timber; feveral fine ftandards are detached 

 through the paftures, one of which meafures at five feet 

 from the ground, eleven feet nine inches in circumference. 

 Poplar, maple and plane tree are common to the foil. 

 In Baythorne Hall garden, by the fide of the river Stour, 

 a clump of alders jultly CAcltc notice and admiration. The 

 largeft of thefe trees (and they run tolerably even) at five 

 feet from the ground, is feven feet four inches 'in circum- 

 ference, and is in height from thirty to thirty-five feet of 



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