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ANSWERS to the QUERIES of the BOARD of AGRICULTURE. 



To Mr. VANCOUVER from the Rev. C. ONLEY, Stipd, Ejjcx. 





I- X HE climate good, many finall rivulets running into the Pant, alias Blackwater, at the 

 bottom of Stifted and Pattiswick, through about fifty acres of meadow ground, fubjeft to 

 floods. 



2. In farms from 50I. to 20ol. per annum, chiefly nearer to, and fome even beneath the former 



fum, at from los. to 153. per acre, an average of 12s. per annum, is as much, as with 

 parochial charges, the foil will to an improving tenant admit. 



3. Almofl: entirely in the beft mode of comman hufbandry. 



4. Scarcely any natural upland pafture. No fpecies of ftock bred ; flieep, ewes in lamb, or 

 young wethers, or a few bullocks annually bought, fattened and fold j fmall dau-ies, of no 

 particular breed. 



5. The watering imknown, but fome land probably capable of it. 



6. All the ufual grain and pulfe, at the average rate of z\ quarters of wheat, 4I of barLy, 4. 

 of oats, 3 of beans, and 2| of peas per acre per annum. 



", The rotation is fallow, barley, clover, wheat, then according to the nature of the foil (which 

 here varies from field to field, fom.e clay, much moift brick earth, light wet loam, and fome 

 diy) may, according to the quantity of ftock eflential to the annual confumption for the 

 farm, (for winter grazing merely never anfwers) beans, peas, winter tares, or turnips, very 

 fmall portions proper for the latter, as they can neither be fed upon, nor carted off, without 

 prejudice to the future crop ; wheat and barley are the ftaple corn, as tares and clover are 

 the vegetable crops ; oats, beans and peas, and turnips, occafional ones. 



%. Fallowing is thought eflential, efpecially for barley, by leafe is required after two crops of 

 corn, and one either of pulfe or herbage, under a tenant of capital intelligence, induftry, 

 and integrity. The fallow by the alternation of an hoeing pulfe with a feeding vegetable, 

 after a corn crop, might, with perfect juflice to the foil, and lecurity to the landlord, here 

 be longer deferred. 



9. Having no navigable communication with any fea port for chalk or lime, thefe come too dear 

 for any general or material ufe, though neceflary as manure, which is almoft entirely what is 

 merely raifed by the ftock, kept chiefly in winter, mixed occafionally with earth on the 

 fides of the field. This a motive for fallowing, as remedying the want of manure, and 

 correfting, what hand-hoing will not do, the weeds raifed by fuch manure. 

 10. The Norfolk wheel and foot plough with only two horfes; four horfes fuflicient in the 

 above culture, allowing ten acres for natural pafture, for ninety acres in the farm. Light 

 narrow-wheel waggons ; fmall low, as well as large carts, with wheels of fix to nine inches 

 breadth ; a double breafted plough to earth up. 

 J I. No oxeo ufed infuch farms, and fmall inclofures probably not eligible. 



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