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3T. Tolerably thriving under the old mode of culture, they are not eager after improvements, 

 I but not obftinate againft them. 



32. There does not feem to be any county ftock of any fpecies of cattle ; all fiippofed to be better 

 purchafed from other counties. Whatever may be wanted in their husbandry will be fug- 

 gefted heft by gentlemen uling thofe inflruments, particularly fnims and fcuffles, which are 

 not too complicated for co7ntno7i ufe^ and which may Jeffen the neceffity or expence of fallowing. 



33. No other obftacles than may arife from the reftraint of leafes, the nature of copyhold and 

 leafehold tenures, and the very fluftuating burthen even of compounded tythes. The utmoft 

 freedom in the tenure of their land is the only mode of encouraging a free nation to be good 

 husbandmen. 



34. The befi: mode of feeding horfes is by mowing clover, ray grafs, and efpecially tares; the 



winter, mixed with rye; the fpring, tares, with oats, and feeding in the flable, or open yard, 

 with racks, or cribs, at 2s. 6d. per horfe per week : it is conjefturcd, an acre thus ufed, 

 amounts to 5I. and the manure thus colle£ted, -may equal the mowing and carting. In winter, 

 cut chaff, two parts flravv, and one of hay, either natural, or clover, or tare, with a few oats, 

 is one of the beft. Carrots admirable; but not here to be got reafonable enough, and re- 

 quiring, on this foil, too much delicacy and expence of culture, for farmers to venture on 

 railing them. Potatoes have never been rai fed here on a farming principle ; cabbages very 

 few; turnips the ftaple winter provender. 



35. The number of aflefled houfes in Stifted is thirty-two; average of inhabitants 550; varying 

 . extremely as farms change their occupying families ; poor's rates, at the rack rent, of 4s. 6d. 



per pound; compounded tythes lately raif;d from lefs than 200I. to 430I. per ann. The 

 farmers totally unaccuftomed to the payment of tythes in kind will here fubmit to nearly any, 

 the mofl oppreffing compofition, whereas by fubmilting to it, they deprive themfelves and 

 landlords, of a fair counterpoife to this dead weight on hufbandry ; to fome juft reftitution on 

 ■ . this Englifli tailU in the means of faddling the tythes on a rack rent proportion, with a full 

 fliare of the land-tax, poor, and other rates in Stifted ; thefe would have amounted on the 

 tythes and glebe, to full 200I. per ann. The number of aflefled houfes in Pattifwick is lO; 

 of inhabitants 220. Tythes generoufly compounded. Without ome permanent compofition 

 of tythes, not at all diflicult, unlefs in t\\Q political alliance, the church ought to control the 

 ftate, all attempts at great and general agricultural improvements, areworfe than nugatory 

 Within thefe few weeks, three or four fliims, to fix on to the blocks of the wheel plough, 

 have been ufed in this neighbourhood, for cleanfing bean and pea etches, done by hand- 

 hoeing at 7s. 6d. per acre. They anfwer thus on ploughed fallovjs, but our foil fo hardens in 

 dry weather, and fo quickly runs foul with ftrong weeds, (unlefs ufed injlautly, that peas 

 and beans are carted) as to render this ufeful inftrument, on the prefent trials, inefFeftual. 

 A Norfolk roll with projeding cylinders, to draw drills for fowing wheat is going to be tried j 

 not likely to anfwer on our foil : dibbling wheat certainly would on fome of it, as Cook's drill 

 has in a vtvy few fpots; but there is a notion here that thin fowing promotes the mildew. 



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