214 WHEAT. 27. 



In their culture of barlej'' and of turneps, 

 the Norfolk hufbandmen, no doubt, excel ; 

 but, taken colled:ively as a body of profcffional 

 men, they cannot, defervedly, be ranked 

 among wheat-farmers. 



Neverthelefs, there are, as I flatten myfelf- 

 fully appears by the foregoing detail, fomc 

 hufbandmen in Norfolk who merit no part 

 of this cenfurc ; their management being, per- 

 haps, the befc that art can devife for the foil 

 they act upon : while, therefore,. I condemn 

 them as a body (for reafons which I flatter my- 

 felf are obvious), I mean to except, with all 

 due refpeft, a number of individuals. 



V. The manure- process.— Land which 

 has been recently marled or clayed, requires no, 

 further addition; — nor has land which has 

 received fifteen or twenty loads of dung and 

 mould for turneps, — the firft year's lay having 

 been teathed in autumn, and the fecond fed 

 off, — any need of another dreffmg for Vvheat. 



Where the foil is good, and the wheat apt to, 



run too much to flraw, fome few judicious 



farmers fet their manure upon the young 



plover, thereby checking the effcd of rank- 



nefs to the wheat, 



• • But 



