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From this and other inflanccs of a fimllar 

 kind, as well as from general obfervation, I 

 am convinced that to plow beneath the wonted 

 depth, would, under the lingular circumftances 

 of the Norfolk foil, be injudicious manage- 

 ment ; — unlefs fome ready method could be hit 

 upon of forming, at a greater depth, a frefh paia. 



'The methods of -plowing are various.— Ipx 

 making fallows, the prevailing praftice of 

 plowing fleet and " fUll pitch," alternately, is 

 very judicious : it not only breaks and mixes 

 the foil more readily than the common pradtice 

 of plowing always the fame, or nearly the fame 

 depth ; but, in the firft two plowings, it ren- 

 ders the operations more eafy : the firft, being 

 thin, goes lighter off the fliare ; and the fe- 

 cond being always (except for turneps) a crofs- 

 plowing, the Ihare has frefli firm ground to lay 

 hold of, by which means the plow is kept 

 fteady to its work. 



To increafe this advantage it is common, on 

 very thin foils, to break up fallows by " rice- 

 balking," or by " Hob-furrowing i" which are 

 nearly the fame operation performed in diffe- 

 rent ways. 



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