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off" to the cattle by the end of February, and fucceeded with 

 oats or barley. Upon the lighter land the culture of tares, 

 turnips, and other green crops is very generally attended to. 

 From Maiden wefterly towards WOODHAiM WALTER, 

 a thin ftapled light foil upon a gravel, under which a variety 

 of ftrata of red and white fand, gravel and brick earth ; 

 this land is particularly fubjcil to burn in fummer, and from 

 its great drynefs, the culture of turnips is rendered extremely 

 uncertain. The colefeed in this neighbourhood is generally 

 fed off", not growing fufhciently high to admit of mowing, 

 as at Maiden. 



At WOODHAM MORTIMER the foil confrfts of a 

 ftrong heavy clay upon a tile earth, a brown loam of a good 

 ftaple upon a tender clay, and a light hollow foil abounding 

 with fprings upon a gravel, and which are generally drawn 

 off" by hollow drains, at an expence of about 3I. per acre. 

 Of this improvement, a gentleman in that neighbourhood 

 has done fome hundreds of acres, and very juflly conceives 

 it to be the firff, and moft eflcntial point in the improve- 

 ment of this kind of land. Chalking the wet heavy lands at an 

 expence of 5I. per acre, is very general, and found to anfwer 

 fo well, that with fair cropping, the land will require little 

 or no dung, or other manure, for a period of twenty years. 



At HASELEY the foil is formed of a deep hazel coloured 

 loam upon a bfown clay, and a more open and tender foil, 

 upon a loamy gravel. Thence wefterly, and afcending the 

 country towards DAN BURY and LITTLE BADDOW, 

 a thin dry foil upon a gravel, affording little means of im- 

 provement from natural manure ; unlefs the veins of white 

 pipey clay which are found interfperfed through thefe 

 parifhes, fliould on trial be found to anfwer. 



The woodlands in the higher parts of this country are 

 found very much to favour the growth of an inferior dwarf 



oak 



