14-2 S O I L - P R O C E S S. 



20-. 



In rice-balking, the '' flag"* is always turned 

 toward the unplowed ground, the edge of the 

 coulter paffing clofe to the edge of the flag laft 

 turned : whereas, in flob-furrowing, the flag is 

 turned towards the plowed ground, the coulter 

 pairing fifteen or fixteen inches from the laft 

 plow-furrow; — into which, in this cafe, the 

 edge of the flag hangs ; — and, in both cafes, 

 a flip of unplowed foil, of a width nearly 

 equal to that of the flag, is buried. 



Thefe methods of plowing are not peculiar 

 to Norfolk ; but I know no Diflridt in which 

 they are fo commonly praflifed by farmers in 

 general as they are in this county. The firft h 

 mofl: in ufe : it is the neater, and, perhaps for 

 the Norfolk foil, the more eligible operation. 



Another method of plowing pradtifed iii 

 Norfolk, but not peculiar to it, is " two-fur- 

 rowing :" — trench-plowing — double-plowing. 

 This is done with two plows, one following 

 the other in the fame place : it is, in the flial- 

 low foil of this Diftrict, a difficult operation ; 

 but the wheels and the broad-fliare of the Nor- 

 folk plow render it Angularly well adapted to 

 this bufinefs. The foil, perhaps not more than 



- '•• The provincial term for the furrow turned. 



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