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MINUTES 



NORFOLK 

 SOIL. 



Io6. and livery by laying flat, it is no fooner ex- 

 pofcd to the air than it becomes mellow and 

 friable. This peculiar quality is faid to be 

 principally owing to marl (or clay) ; by the 

 fertilizing quality of which, land that is 

 fufficiently flrong for wheat, is rendered fuffi- 

 ciently tender for turneps and barley. Before 

 the ufe of marl and clay the Fleg farmers ':ould 

 not grow turneps ; whereas now they excel in 

 that valuable crop. Mr, Ferrier, in one of 

 the ftiffeft of his pieces, put his toe upon a clod 

 to {hew me this excellent property j and with 

 a flight preffure of his foot burft it to an aU 

 mofl impalpable powder. This friability of 

 ftrong land is, perhaps, one of the belt crite- 

 rions of a good foil. 



FARMERS. Mr. B-3^3**^" Tne character of this man 



(7 

 is fo very extraordinary, that I cannot refrain 



from Sketching fome of its principal features. 

 He was, I believe, bred in the army ; ferved fome 

 time in the militia; has fought two or three 

 (duels ; quarrelled with moft of the gentlemen of 

 the county ; and, coming to a good paternal 

 eftate, discharged his tenants and commenced 

 farmer. 



He is now an occupier of ijooL a year yet 

 Jie has ne'iLhcr Reward nor ey en bailiff to affift 



him ' 



