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III. Rolling. — Very little general matter 

 falls under this head. One circumftance, how- 

 ever, requires to be mentioned. 



The roller, notvvithftanding the lightnefs 

 of the foil, and its pronenefs to be injured by 

 dry weather, is never ufed in Norfolk for the 

 purpofe of comprefllon. I never faw one ufed 

 by a farmer either upon fallow or upon a lay ; 

 rot even upon the firft year of a clover-lay to 

 fmooth the furface for the lithe. 



The only ufes to which I have feen a roller 

 put, in this Diftrid:, are that of fmoothing the 

 furface before fowing, to prevent the feed from 

 running down too low, and that of fmoothing 

 it afterwards as a preparation for the iithe * : 

 and even this operation is performed with a 

 roller not more perhaps i^han feven or eight 

 inches in diameter ! a circumftance which I 

 confefs, I am no way able to account for: never- 

 thelefs, it would be rafhnefs to condemn an 

 eftablifhed practice, unlefs I could, from my 

 own experience, or from adequate obfervation 

 on the experience of others, prove it to be in- 

 eligible. 



I cannot, however, refrain in this Inftance 

 from recommending to the Norfolk hufband- 



* And fomet'mes wheat is rolled in autumn. See "VV^heat, 

 Vol. I. L men 



