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wolild remove the prefent inconvenience attending its 

 management. By occafionally leading a part of the water 

 of the river Chehner over the meadows which lie along its 

 courfe, a confiderable improvement may be made thereon. 



The varieties in this parifh continue very generally to 

 GREAT EASTON, where the leading charader of the 

 foil, is a thin tough cling clay, under which, at various 

 depths, are found ftrata of red and brown fand. Intermixed 

 with the clay foil, are found fmall portions of fandy loam, 

 which attend it fouth-wefterly through GREATand LITTLE 

 DUMMOW, where, in the higher parts of the country, 

 a thin grey foil upon a chalky clay, is gradually loft in ^ 

 deep friable mould, on the fides of the hills which hang to* 

 wards the meadows that abut upon the river Chelmer, Pro> 

 ceeding thence foutherly, crolling the valley, and afcending 

 towards BARNSTON, a well mixed deep mould upon t 

 brown and a chalky clay, and a thin light gravelly foil upon 

 a gravel. 



There are various modes of cropping purfued in this dif- 

 lri£t; the firft of which upon the heavy land, is to fallow the 

 wheat ftubbles for barley, fow fourteen pecks to the acre j 

 then fallow the barley ftubbles for wheat, fow ten or elevea 

 pecks to the acre, and always dung upon the fallows fof 

 barley. Upon the more temperate lands, the ufual routine 

 of crops are, firft, fallow for oats or barley ; fow of the 

 former, from fixteen to eighteen pecks ; of the latter, from 

 twelve to fourteen pecks, and with either fourteen pounds 

 of red clover to the acre. This is mown or fed oif as beft 

 fuits the conveniency of the farmer, and fucceeded with 

 wheat, after once ploughing the clover ley, fowing from 

 nine to eleven pecks per acre; part of the wheat ftubbles 

 are occafionally fown with tares ; the land is then fallowed 

 in courfe for fpring corn. In this feries it is alwajs judged 



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