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would be wanted for family use, and for pigs, and as t 

 know that mangel wurzel will grow on stronger land than it 

 is generally supposed it; will, 1 should try to raise it, for on 

 such a farm it would be most useful for milking cows and 

 weaning calves. As the seed shoot has great difficulty in 

 getting out of strong land, the best way to raise a crop is, 

 to have a piece of land well manured and pulverised, for the 

 seed to be sown in the middle of April, and transplanted 

 when the size of a radish, either on manured ridges of the 

 usual width, or on the level, fourteen inches asunder. A 

 few cabbages also would be useful, even if they did not 

 grow to any size. No one can tell how to manage a clay 

 land farm so well as the occupier of it, if he really has a 

 knowledge of farming ; for different kinds of clay land 

 differ so much in their power of production, and in the . 

 necessary management. The different rotation of crops I /?/ 

 which I have to suggest, are these : Fallow Wheat or 

 Barley Clover (two years) Wheat Beans, or Peas, or 

 <'ats; or, Fallow Barley Clover (one year) Wheat 

 Beans Oats. 



Persons who saw the farm of a great writer on agriculture 

 five-and-thirty years ago, reported that it was kept in a most 

 slovenly manner. The writer of this pamphlet is desirous that 

 those whom chance may bring near his farm should see whe- 

 ther his practice corresponds with his recommendations. He 

 is well aware that he cannot show on his farm such perfectly 

 straight lines of ploughing, drilling, and ridging, as are to 

 lie seen in Norfolk. The fact is he never had a first-rate 

 ploughman, o.nd being likely to keep on the same men he 

 has had many years, he now doubts whether he ever shall 

 be able, to show perfectly straight lines of ploughing, drill- 

 ing, and ridging. 



No one has done so much to improve the agricul- 

 ture of England as Mr. Coke. It was justly said 

 by a late eminent writer, that he would be the greatest 

 benefactor to his country who could make two blades of 

 corn grow where only one grew before. From Mr. Coke's 

 influence and exertions in Norfolk, the growth of corn has 

 increased there more than ten-fold ; and from the general 

 introduction of the Norfolk system of turnip-husbandry, it 

 may be fairly estimated that two blades of corn throughout 



