NORFOLK. 



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foundation is generally more prudent : a large 

 buttrefs fwallows up a great quantity of brick 

 and mortar ; and, when railed, is but a tem- 

 porary relief* 



A large blue Hate forms an admirable roof 

 for a buttrefs : an inflance occurs upon Ari- 

 tingham-hall farm. 



61. 



FEBRUARY 5. A neighbouring farmer 

 having one fide of a clofe of turneps which he 

 could not get off faft enough to be fowri 

 with wheat, he cut off their tops with a fpade^ 

 gave the tops to his cows, carted the bottoms 

 into a new-made adjoining ditch, fbacking 

 the cart and tipping them in) and covered 

 them over with a little ftraw j and, over this^ 

 with bramble-kids, to keep the flock from 

 them. 



Here they lay until wanted in a froft, when' 

 the cart was again backed to the ditch, and 

 the turneps loaded with a fork. 



He fays, tliat his bcafts eat them as well 

 or better than frefh-drawn turneps ; and that 

 in general they came out as found as when 

 they went in. Had the tops been depoficed 

 With the ro'ots, they would probably have 



brought 



60. 



BUTTRESSES. 



PRESERVING 

 TUKNEPS. 



