MINUTES 



MAY 



loo. 



WORKMEN. 



On the contrary, a Kentifh plowman, accu- 

 flomed from his infancy to walk, whether at 

 harrow, plow, or cart, about a mile-and-a- 

 half or two miles an hour, preferves the fame 

 fluggifh flep even in his holidays ; and is the 

 fame flow, dull, heavy animal in every thing 

 he does. 



That the Norfolk farm-labourers difpatch 

 more work than thofe of other countries is an 



undoubted fact; and in this 

 may be fully accounted for. 



way, I think, it 



IOI. 



MARKETS. MAY 4. Went this morning to fee the 



clover-feed market at Norwich. 



The feeds are brought chiefly from Suffolk. 

 and the Suffolk fide of Norfolk. Many of 

 them are in the hands of the growers them- 

 felves ; fome in thofe of jobbers, who collect 

 them of the farmers. They are principally 

 contained in coomb facks, containing four 

 bufhels, of fixty-fix pounds each, together with 

 two pound a bufhel for over-weight; fothat a 

 bufhel is only a term ufed for fixty -eight pound 

 of clover-feed, at Norwich market : or for fixty- 

 fix pound, in other parts of the county. 



The feeds are principally brought into mar- 

 ket in thefe coomb facks; in which feveral 



hundred 



