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tlfed in this Diftridl calls for a greater number 

 of divifions than arc neceffary in moft other 

 places. For although ah Eaft-Norfolk farmer 

 divides his farm into what he calls " fix Ihifts," 

 to receive his principal crops in rotation, he 

 does not wifli for fewer than nineteen or twenty 

 arable divifions, in order that he may have an 

 opportunity of diftributing his turnep-crop over 

 different parts of his farm. 



For fimilar reafons he does not clafs, but in- 

 termixes, his other arable crops. 



This intermixture of crops renders driftways 

 neceffary ;— and they are no where more nu- 

 merous than in Norfolk. 



Another important matter to which Nor- 

 folk hufbahdmen are attentive in laying-out 

 their farms, is that of endeavouring to lay their 

 " furlongs" north-and-fouth, that the fun may 

 have an equal influence on either fide the nar- 

 row ridges, upon which their wheat is almofl 

 linlverfally raifed. 



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