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Sotith Wales cows ; but in the event of a general enclofure, 

 (which is much wifhed for) this deficiency would be imme- 

 diately fupplied by the culture of artificial graiTes ^ and the 

 laying down of feveral well adapted fpots into permanent 

 pafture. 



The furface of the country through WENDEN LOFTS, 

 STRETHALL, ELMDON, and CHISHALL, is 



much intermixed, as well in the open fields, as in the en- 

 clofiires : confifting in part, of a thin dry foil upon a chalk, 

 a hurrock, and a harfh burning' gravel ; together with a deep 

 friable mould upon a flinty or gravelly loam, and a tough wet 

 thin clay upon a tile earth. The open field lands in the parilhes 

 of HEYDON, GREAT and LITTLE CHISHALL, 

 are chiefly formed of a thin hurrocky foil upon a chalk and 

 gravel. The foil of the enclofures is found to improve from 

 a wet heavy clay to a deep tender loam upon a brick earth. 

 In the parilh of LANGLEY the foil becomes more uniform, 

 ,and will juftly anfwer to one general defcription, which 

 is that of a ftrong wet loam upon a tough clay or tile earth. 



From the nature of fuch a foil, very clofe hollow draining 

 has been rendered indifpenfibly neceflary. "I'he drains are 

 laid oft at two and a half and three yards apart from each 

 other, are made twenty-fix inches deep, and filled with wood' 

 and flraw, and at an expence of from 50s. to 3I, per acre. 



The want of proper materials for repairing thefe roads 

 occafion ihem to be almoft impaffable in winter. Stones 

 or gravel are with difficulty obtained, and no where within the 

 moft convenient diltance for lefs than one penny per bufliel ; 

 an expence, which to a certain degree, would be rendered 

 lefs neceffary, were the fides of the lanes, and the road 

 greens lowered, and a freer paffage afforded to the difcharge 

 of the water, by opening the drains into the outfal ditches. 



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