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stronger land than was formerly supposed, but as snch 

 land will not bear the treading of sheep to eat them 

 off, the turnips cannot be applied to a better purpose to 

 enrich the farm, than when they are given, with straw, to 

 beasts in the fold yards. Beasts cannot fail to do well when 

 feeding on two kinds of food which separately will have such 

 opposite effects on the stomach and bowels of animals, but 

 when blended will keep their bodies in a proper state. It 

 is a common practice in Norfolk to give oil cake with straw ; 

 this cannot possibly answer but with the Norfolk low rents. 

 When it is considered how naturally poor the soil of the 

 greater part of Norfolk is, the crops are surprisingly fine ; 

 but as they are obtained at very great expense, a low price 

 of corn affects Norfolk farmers more perhaps than it does 

 the farmers of any other county. L have seen many straw 

 and fold yards so ill contrived as to let all the drainings 

 from the dung run away and be lost. 



SALT. The great expectations of benefit from the use 

 of salt in farming, have not been realized. It has not been 

 found to fertilize as it was said to do. Its only use is to 

 destroy grubs in land that has no crop on it, for it will kill 

 every thing that is vegetable. I was surprised to observe it 

 destroy some large trees whose roots, a great distance from 

 their trunks, came in contact with only a small quantity of 

 it. If in the putting together a rick of coarse hay the rick- 

 maker had a sack of unadulterated common salt on the rick, 

 and he sprinkled a little of it on each layer, it would make 

 the hay more palatable to the animals that eat it. A large 

 lump of rock salt, put in a trough that will keep the drip- 

 pings from the grass, ought to be put in every pasture, it 

 having been found to do good to all animals that take to 

 licking it. I have seen part of a close of land, of what is 

 called in this county hen-mouldy soil that is light, and a 

 sort of boggy soil which year after year would bear 

 scarcely any crop ; salt was applied to it, and it has borne 

 very well ever since. The earth, no doubt, was full of 

 weed-roots and insects, and the salt killed both. 



PIGS. As many should be kept on every farm as 

 conveniently can be, without giving them good, marketable 

 corn ; excepting when put up for fattening. These useful 



