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The foil of GREAT and LITTLE BURSTEAD (io- 

 cluding the hamlet of BILLERICKY) confifts of a deep 

 rich loam upon a gravelly loam, and a brick earth, a thin 

 heavy foil upon a tough red clay, and a deep friable mould 

 upon a gravel. 



Li this neighbourhood the cows are particularly liable to 

 flip calf, which is generally afcribed to an infe£\ious effluvia 

 proceeding from the firft falfe birth, the ill effe£ts of which is 

 fuppofed to be in a great meafurc prevented from fpreading, 

 by immediately burying the abortion, burning ftraw diredlly 

 over the place, and fmearing the hind parts of the cow with 

 tar; but above all, keeping her feparate, and as far apart 

 as poffible from the other cows, ought never to be negle6led ; 

 various reafons are alligned as the caufe of this accident, 

 but none that appear conclufive, or fatisfadlorily explained. 



The courfe of huflaandry practiced upon the lighteft lands 

 in this diftridl, is to fallow and prepare for turnips, fucceeded 

 by oats or barley, with rye grafs half a bufliel, and trefoil 

 ID lbs. or one half peck to the acre ; this lies one and fome- 

 times two years, and is then fown broadcaft upon the flag, 

 ■with white peas, from fourteen to lixteen pecks to the acre. 

 The pea etches are well cleaned, dunged, and fown with 

 wheat upon once ploughing, ten pecks to the acre: part of 

 the wheat etches are fown with rye for fpring food, and then 

 prepared again in courfe for turnips. 



Upon the heavier land, fallow occafionally for turnips, or 

 for colefeed for fpring food; but mofl: generally for oats or 

 barley, with which fow clover from 141b. to 16 lb. to the 

 acre; part of which is dunged when young, and followed 

 with wheat the enfuing autumn upon the clover ley. The 

 etches of that wheat, which was fown upon the undunged 

 clover land, are dunged in the courfe of the winter, and 

 fown with beans, two furrows upon a yard-wide ridge ; 



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