32 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



Section vm. 



ARABLE LAND, AND COURSE OF 

 CROPPING. 



JLN my general eftimation of the quantity of ara- 

 ble land, I have fuppofed the whole to be about 

 two-thirds of the county, or 729,600 acres, of 

 which, perhaps, about three parts out of the four 

 may be incloled ; the other fourth part in common 

 fields. 



The landlord generally wilhes to fix the ma- 

 nagement and courfe of cropping under a fix- 

 courfe fhift, viz. wheat the firft year — barley or 

 oats the fecond, without clover — turnips the third 

 — barley or oats, with clover, the fourth — the 

 clover mowed for hay the fifth — and the fixth 

 grazed till Midfummer, and then broken up for 

 wheat in fucceffion. 



But the occupier will often endeavour to contract 

 it to a five-courfe fhift, by fowing his wheat upon 

 clover of one year's lay, and in fome of the belt 



parts, 



