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proper husbandry by which the layers should be 

 broken up. 



MUSTARD. 



In breaking up the rich common of Marshland 

 Smeeth, in Norfolk, the crop that was supposed 

 to pay better than any other, was mustard. The 

 soil is a rich silt and clay, worth 60s. an acre. 

 They ploughed once, and harrowing twice, sowed 

 one-fourth of a peck of the seed per acre, from 

 Candlemas to the end of March, according to the 

 weather. Few farmers have a soil that answers for 

 this crop, but it is necessary to name it, that if 

 markets are promising they may at least have it in 

 their mind. It may now also be added, that they 

 hand-hoe the plants twice. The crop is reaped in 

 the beginning of September, being tied in sheaves, 

 and left three or four days on the stubble. It is 

 then stacked in the field. Rain damages it. A 

 good crop is six or seven combs an acre : the price 

 from 7s. to 2Os. a bushel. They take three or 

 four crops running. 



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Is dibbled in this month, along the tops of 

 ridges two or three feet wide, and which have been 

 previously manured, and reversed to cover the dung. 

 It is very little cultivated at present ; but Sir Mor- 

 daunt Martin, of Norfolk, adhering to the culti- 

 vation, and finding the root very advantageous 

 for his cows, it is right to name it in a work of 

 this nature. 



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