1781, 



NORFOLK. 



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other new manure as experience would point 

 our, it might continue to throw out great crops 

 for many years. 



This is a fubject worth inveftigating; for upon 

 old grazing grounds, which have been fed and 

 teathed with cattle during a length of time, the 

 dung which falls from them cannot, on this 

 hypothefis, be of any ufe to the land ; confe- 

 quently the ftpck may, without injury to the 

 pafturc, be driven off in the night-time totcathe 

 fome arable land ; or the dung may,, with ad- 

 vantage, be collected and carried off; whilfl by 

 mould, afhes, foot, &c. the grafsland may re- 

 ceive improvement. 



32. 



NOVEMBER 17. To-day compleated the 

 *' roofing" of a reeded barn. 



I have attended particularly to the method 

 of laying the reed, and of fetting on the " roof- 

 ing" of this building. 



The method of laying reed is this: 



No laths being made ufe of, a little of the 

 longeft and flouteft of the reed is fcattered ir- 

 regularly acrofsthe naked fpars, as afoundatioa 

 to lay the main coat upon : this partial gauze- 

 like covering is called the " fleaking." 



Oa 



MANURE. 



GRASSLAND, 



THATCHING 

 WITH REED. 



