OF NORFOLK. 



71 



51 he not lofe a year's rent of that part of his farm, without 

 <; beincr one jot the forwarder, with the addition of a con- 

 " fiderable expence, incurred by a great proportion of la- 

 " bour, into the bargain ? Surely this, if properly confi- 

 i; dered, proves, inconteftibly, the fyflem to be founded 

 ' ; upon wrong principles, and ought to induce us to receive 

 " any opinion, advanced with a corrective motive, as wor- 

 *' thy our confideration at leaft, and by no means a fit ob- 

 " jeft of our indifference, not to fay contempt. The Society 

 " for the Promotion of Arts, have taken great pains upon 

 ** this fubjeft ; they are actuated in this, as in every other 

 ;{ meafure, by genuine philanthropy, and are anxious to be 

 " the means of laving the tenant, or land-holder, one rent in 

 ' ; three. The method which I wifh to recommend is, alter- 

 ' : nately to grow meliorating and exhaulting crops, and to be 

 i: careful, in the progrefs of their growth, to hoe them occa- 

 <; fionally. The drill-hufbandry, wherever it can be ap- 

 " plied, ought, on this account, never to be neglefted, and 

 i; confequentlv, the broad-call hufbandry, for the lame rea- 

 ' ; fon, fhould be abolifhed, excepting for turnips and the 

 «« fmaller feeds: in facl, any method, and of which there are 

 <; many extant, is to be preferred to this. It is a trite obfer- 

 ' : vation, that the cleaner any land is kept, the lefs care is 

 " requifite to continue it fo ; and I am clearly of opinion, 

 " if the crops are well prefeived from weeds in their in- 

 *' fancy, when they are in the moll danger, and the hoeing 

 " continued as long as can be conveniently with their fafety, 

 " the produce will be increafed, and by the weeds being era- 

 " dicatcd (for the bare cutting off their tops will not be fuffi- 

 " cient) their feeding will be prevented, as well as their pro- 

 *' pagation from the roots ; from hence I infer, the nccefhty 

 u of fummcr fallowing may be fuperccded." 



This gentleman is a fair, liberal, manly commentator, open 

 to conviclion, and, apparently, guided by no other motive, 

 than that of promoting huprovement, 



ftefiura 



