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MINUTES 



JUNE 



118. 



SOIL OF 

 SLOWflELD. 



MANURES 



OF 

 BLOWFIELD 



HOPS IN 

 BLOWFIELD 



The foil moft prevalent in the BLOWFIELD 

 HUNDRED is a rich dark-coloured loam, of a 

 good depth ; the farmers plowing from five 

 to feven or eight inches deep ; and affect to 

 laugh at the fhallow plowing practifed by 

 farmers in this part of the county. 



There is no marl in the Hundred ; but, the 

 river Yare running by the fide of it, the 

 farmers get marl very reafonably from Nor- 

 wich ; and fet on about ten loads an acre: 

 Dung they alfo get by water from Yarmouth 

 and Norwich. 



The firfl thing which firuck me in Blow- 

 field Hundred was a tolerably large hop garden. 



We called upon a perfon in the village of 

 Blowfield ; who is owner of this and two or three 

 more patches ; he being the principal grower 

 in the parilh. Enquiring as to the quantity of 

 hops grown in this neighbourhood, he faid that, 

 three or four years ago, there were ten acres of 

 hops in the parilh of Blowfield ; which, he add- 

 cd^ is more than can be collected in the reft of 

 the county. At prefent, however, there are not 

 more than five acres, and the quantity is every 

 year declining. Hops have lately been low, and 

 the crops have notanfwered the expence. There 

 are two or three dryinghoufes in the town, but 

 they are, except one, going to decay. 



