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HATFIELD BROAD-OAK or Takely Foreft, is about 

 one half covered with wood, amongft which, with a great 

 deal of other very valuable timber, is an oak, that meafures 

 at five feet from the ground, fourteen feet in circumference, 

 and is thought. will cut to .timber, at the height of ninety 

 feet from the ground: one of its branches, near the top, 

 and on its north welt fide, is a little flagged, but in every 

 other refpedl the tree indicates found health and increafing 

 fubftance. 



The clear rich lands of Woodfide Green, and every other 

 part of the foreft, which is not ufefuUy employed in the 

 growth of timber, might be materially improved, by en- 

 clofure for cultivation, or for the purpofe of encouraging 

 the growth of oak and other valuable timber. 



Proceeding foutherly from Hatfield, Broad Oak, through 

 GREAT and LITTLE HALLINGBURY to SHEER- 

 ING, the foil in general becomes of a more temperate and 

 tra6lable nature, affording in many places fome very good 

 turnip land. 



Very little is to be noticed in this diftricl on the article of 

 manure, if we except only the light top drefiings, which are 

 ufed at an expence of from 30s. to 40s. per acre in the open 

 field country, bordering upon Hertford and Canibridgefliire. 

 In thofe parts of the dilfrid, two crops and a fallow is the 

 only routine of cropping that can generally be admitted ; and 

 in the enclofed country, the hufbandry may be referred to 

 the variety of modes pra6liced in, and particularized at the 

 end of the firfl: diflrid ; which, agreeably to the prefixed 

 index table, yields an average produce of 



20 bufhels 3 pecks of Wheat 

 a6 bufhels 3 pecks of Barley 

 24 bufhels I peck of Oats 

 18 bufliels of Peas and 



20 bufliels of Beans per acre- 



Which table further fhews, that the average rent of 

 the enclofed arable land is 12s. 5d. that of the open field 



O a 6s. 



