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nature, affording a fmall portion of turnip land, lying upon 

 a gravel. Towards RETTENDEN the foil alfo varies; 

 but through the higher parts of that parifh, a clofe wet 

 heavy foil prevails, upon a tile earth : here a confiderable 

 inconvenience is often experienced through the want of 

 water, there being no other dependance than pits, which 

 are generally dried up in fummer, and only two fprings (and 

 they not conftant) fit for domeflic ufe in the whole parifh. 



The accident of flipping calf, which through this neigh- 

 bourhood was very prevalent fome years ago, is now thought 

 to be very much checked by the pradlice of bleeding the 

 cows when they are about one-third of their time gone 

 with calf. 



An evident want of cottages through this diftridl occafions 

 that fcarcity of hands which encourages a fpirit of difobe- 

 dience as well among the natives as among thofe trampers, 

 upon whom the labour of the county in a great meafure 

 depends ; even thofe who have the care of the teams, feem 

 totally diverted of that pride, (in feeing their horfes look 

 well) which fo flrongly charadlerizes the fame defcription 

 of fervants in moft other places. The mafter's eye, late 

 and early, and his conftant attendance in the ftable, becomes 

 as indifpenfible as in any other department of his bufinefs. 

 Thus adding to his other toils and anxieties, a duty, which 

 in moft places of the kingdom, the farmer's life is ufually 

 exempt from. 



The hufbandry of the more temperate foils in this diftrift, 

 is to fallow and manure for turnips, or colefeed, the latter 

 in general fed off, though it fometimes is allowed to ftand 

 for a crop. The turnip, or colefeed land, is fown with oats 

 or barley ; together with fixteen pounds of red clover to the 



acre. 



