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MINUTES 



FEB, 



81. 



PLANNING. 



BREEDING 



81. 



FEBRUARY 28. Mr. A. Bayfield afldng me 

 if I would not have fome " wood-layer" put 

 into the places where the pollards (oaken pol- 

 lards) were taking out againftSnffield Common, 

 I told him yes, he might have a little oak-layer. 

 " Why," fays he, with his ufual coolnefs and 

 good fenfe, "would not a little aihen-layer think 

 " you, Sir, be better? I have known afhes thrive 

 " rarely well after oaks, but have feldom known 

 " oak-layer take where an oaken timber or 

 " pollard has been taken down." 



This is a valuable obfervation. It has long 

 been obferved, that an old orchard feldom 

 bears planting as an orchard a fecond time ; 

 ftor is wheat after wheat, equal to pulfe or 

 grafs, after wheat; or wheat after pulfe or 

 grafs. 



82. 



MARCH i. In drawing off fome mixt-breed 

 hoggards for fale, it is obfervable, that thofe 

 between long-wooled ewes and a Norfolk ram 

 are handfomer (lock, and forwarder, than tho'fe 

 which have been bred from Norfolk ewes by 

 a Leicefterfhire ram ; and that in this cafe the 

 ewes have always great difficulty in lambing. 



