1782. 



NORFOLK. 



vented ; and the furze being principally in- 

 tended as a defence of the back of the bank 

 from cattle, it is extraordinary that the cuftom 

 of fowing it upon the top mould continue. 



Laft year I fowed upwards of a hundred 

 rods, and this year about two hundred : my 

 method has been this. 



Two men, with a fpade, a broom, and a 

 common glafs bottle, furnimed with a per- 

 forated ftopper *, proceeded thus : the firfl 

 man chops a drill with his fpade, from two to 

 three inches deep, and at about two-thirds of 

 the height of the bank. In this fiffure the 

 other man fcatters the feed through the hole in 

 the cork, at the rate of thirty long rods to a 

 pound of feed. This done, one of them, in 

 prder to repair the cracks and partial breaches 

 made on the bank by chopping the drill, pats 

 it with the back of his fpade above and below 

 the mouth of the drill, which is purpofely left 

 open ; whilft the other, with the broom, fweep- 

 ing upwards over the mouth of the drill, covers 

 the feed with loofe mould ; yet leaves the mouth 



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* A wooden cork, pierced with a gimblet, about the fize 

 of a fwan's quill ; the infide burnt fmooth with a wire, and 

 the outiide bound with thread to make it ftick fecurely in 

 Vhe mouth of the bottle. 



N 4 fufficiently 



104. 



RAISING 

 HhDUES. 



SOWING 



FURZt- 



SEED. 



