20. NORFOLK. J37 



20. 

 SOIL-PROCESS. 



IN THIS important department of huf- 

 bandry the Norfolk farmers are proficients. — 

 It is obfervable, however, that Norfolk being 

 an old-cultivated country ; and having been, 

 century after century, kept under a courfe of 

 arable management ; the difficulties of break- 

 ing-up rough wafte lands, and old leys, are, 

 at prefent, unknown ; the whole bufinefs of 

 thefoil-procefs being, now, the regular routine 

 of removing thofe foulnelTes, which all arable 

 lands are liable to ; and in putting the foil 

 into a fit ftate for the reception of the feed. 



But thefe operations, fimple as they may 

 feem to unpradical obfervers, require much 

 fl<;ill and judgment; for on a proper conduct 

 in this department depends, confiderably, the 

 profit or lofs of an arable farm. And as the 

 Norfolk hufbandmen appear to me to be 

 mailers in this art, 1 will endeavour to convey 

 to my readers, in an ample manner^ their con- 

 dud: 



