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Eight waggon loads of chalk, value irs. a load, without cartage, are a good dieirmg per acre 

 which in fair hufbandry will be produdtive twenty years. 



Theuniverfal opinion, that land once chalked would never receive benefit from rubbjfh a fecond 

 time, is now found fallacious by daily experience ; but the flifF-foiled old chalked lands, i-equire 

 that the fecond dreffing fliould be previoufly mixed witli bank or other earth. No 7narlc^ or under- 

 ftratum of that kind, has been difcovered in that parifli. Cole/eed, huck-nxhtat^ and even clovers^ 

 are often turned in, upon old ploughed lands, and much benefit has been derived from their 

 vegetable fermentation. 



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IMPROVEMENTS, — HoUonv- draining has not been long pradlifed here, but is now becoming 

 general: the ditches are cut a rod afunder, from twenty to twenty-four inches deep, and well filled 

 with wood and Itraw at from four fliillings, to five fliillings per fcore rods. — SheepfoJding has like- 

 wife been recently introduced, and is found highly beneficial to the pafturage, as well as ploughed 

 lands. — Taking down tlie numerous pollard trees and lofty hedges throughout all the road fides, 

 under the highv/ay ftatutes in this parifti, has fo apparently improved the adjoining lands, by 

 laying them open to the fun, and the free circulation of air, that the mode is generally adopted 

 through the hundred, where the fences are now handfomely clipped low by choice,which were at firfl 

 taken down by compulfion.— 7"ar«iy6i increafe in proportion to the extent of land-ditching. — The 

 drumhead cabbage \s partially introduced for fpring feed, and anfwers well, except where an im-, 

 mediate crop of Lent corn is expeded to fucceed; this failing as a natural confequence, confirms 

 the general prejudice that cabbages are a more exhaufting crop than is truly the fa£l. Colefeed feed 

 is declining much, from the general experience, that it leaves the bell fallowed lands in anunfavor- 

 able ftate iavcats and clover, and is of courfe prejudicial to the next winter crop ia fucceffion. As 

 an improvement pretty general in its operation, may be fairly reckoned the advance of rents; 

 a fure fpur to induftrious emulation, from which the tenantry and landlords evidently derive a 

 mutual advantage. 



DEFECT. — The expenfive management of cart bor/es here, in common with the whole d'S- 

 trift, is a ferions defcft that demands immediate reformation. The ploughing, which is done by 

 a pair of horfes and one man with reins, is certainly as foundly and adroitly executed, as in any 

 part of the kingdom ; but the great expenditure of hay and oats, even at the dead feafon of 

 the year, is a ferious drawback from other advantages. Independently of the ordinary favinvs, 

 the introduflion of oxen on farms, where grazing and tillage are fo generally blended, would 

 prove extremely productive : but the difiiculty of weaning the prejudices of a country from an 

 old fyftem, however en'oneous, and the rifque of throwing an extenfive bufinefs out of its re- 

 gular courfe, deter thofe who experience the lofs, from attempting a reformation. Having 

 full-aged oxen from the yoke, to graze on the fpot, without the lofs attendant on overdriven 

 beafls, would give afaving of full twenty-five per cent, inaddtion to the advantages derived from 



their draught. 



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