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CIN'QUEFOIL on rocky land, a most useful plant, 

 either to cut as green food, or for hay, which, if well gotten, 

 is thought to be of more value for draught horses than the 

 best meadow hay. Although its produce is great, as it 

 obtains its chief nourishment from the sub-stratum, it is 

 not thought to be an exhausting crop. The roots will 

 penetrate to a great depth in a rock, but if they come into 

 contact with clay, the plant no longer flourishes. On many 

 soils, where, with the four-course system, broad clover, 

 from coming too frequently, has failed, cinquefoil has been 

 successfully introduced, as a change. 



TREFOIL (Trifolium officinale), is a useful plant to 

 thicken the bottom of a clover crop, but from some cause 

 or other, is not so much sown as formerly. 



HARVEST. My plan, for many years, of getting it in, 

 has been to give so much per acre for the whole that is to 

 say, for cutting, carting, stacking, and thatching ; I paying 

 the boy who drives my team, and allowing each man three 

 pints of ale a-day, and an unrestricted quantity of small 

 beer. My crop generally has been about one-third part 

 wheat, the rest barley ; and my price per acre, 1 Is. Those 

 who get in their harvest in this way, have only to see that 

 the men, in their anxiety to get through their job in as 

 little time as possible, do not tie up the wheat into sheaves 

 when damp, or cart any corn that is not dry. In many 

 counties, women and boys reap a great portion of the 

 wheat, which they seldom could be able to do in this 

 county, from the bulk of straw. At Holkham, the wheat 

 being short in the straw, is all mowed with a cradle scythe ; 

 youths, women, and boys, immediately following the 

 mowers, binding it up (assisted by a horse-rake), into 

 sheaves, which, as the straw is free from weeds, if the 

 weather is particularly fine, they will carry without setting 

 the sheaves up in the usual manner, in shocks. I was at 

 Holkham, about eight days, in the year 1831, at the time 

 the wheat was harvesting, and a most animating sight it 

 was. I counted above a hundred men, women, and boys, 

 employed in one large field. In this way, 345 acres of 



