MINUTES 



FEB. 



67, 



SOWING 

 WHEAT. 



rows do but barely touch each other. The 

 feedfman follows, and fows the remaining half 

 of the feed in the trenches made by the firft 

 plow. Another plowman follows, and, with a 

 neat narrow furrow, covers the feed and makes 

 up the ridges. 



It was on my obferving to him, the other 

 day, the evennefs with which his wheat comes 

 up, that he told me his method of putting in 

 the feed. 



. Farmers in general he thinks fow too much 

 of their feed on the warps, by which means the 

 tops of the ridges have more than their propor- 

 tion of feed ; unlefs the ridges be made very 

 narrow, which occafions a lofs of labour. 



Mr. B.'s four-furrow work is nearly as wide 

 as the fix-furrow ridges of fome farmers ; end 

 it is impoffible for wheat to come up more 

 beautifully than his does this year. 



TURNEPS. 



68. 



FEBRUARY 9. Lafl year, there were turneps 

 fold as high as 5/. an acre ; a price fcldom, if 

 ever, before known in Norfolk, At the begin- 

 ning of this feafon, four pounds ten {hillings* 

 fome fay four guineas and a half, an acre was 



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