1782. 



NORFOLK. 



without filling up the drain? I told him, 114. 



that if he had put oae horfe in a plow and SOIL PRO- 



CESS. ' 

 drawn each furrow (the foil lying in five-pace 



warps), and afterwards had taken two and cut 

 a deep crofs-furrow ; then fet on one man to 

 fhovel out the crumbs, 2nd another to open 

 the eyes of the interfurrows with a hoe, every 

 drop of the {landing water might in a few 

 hours have been got rid of: and the land 

 having lain in this ftate until a dayor two of 

 fine weather came if he had then began to 

 plow on the upper fide of the clofe, and 

 worked towards the outlet, at the lower end of 

 the crofs-furrpw, he could have had no more 

 trouble with the furface-water. 



JUNE 7. Fence-walls, carried to a prpper FENCES A ** 

 height, are warmer and more durable than 

 battens ; the cuftomary farm-yard fence of this 

 country. (See BUILD, and REPAIRS, Vol. I.). 



But, if walls are not raifed to a proper 

 height, they afford little Ihelter, and arc con- 

 tinually liable to be uncoped by the cattle. 

 The yard of Antingham-Hall farm is a fufficien,t 

 jnftance of the former, and various inftances 



of 



