27- NORFOLK. 22$ 



more material purpofe of perfecting the plants 

 at harveft. 



5. Covering the seed. — The feed fown 

 over the rough furrows of the firfl or fecond 

 plowing is covered in the \ifual manner with 

 tined harrows : generally with two finall har- 

 rows and two horfes led by a boy, and fome- 

 times guided with a plow-line ; the man or 

 boy following the harrows to lift them up, and 

 difengage them from the rubbifh, which too 

 frequently incumbers them. 



That fown after the hand-dibbles or the dib- 

 bling-roller is fwept in with a bufh-harrow, 

 made of a gate, hurdle, &c. wattled with 

 thorns or other bulhes. 



6. Adjusting the soil. — The fubfoil of 

 Norfolk being in general of an abforbent 

 nature, crofs-water-furrows are in many in- 

 flances unnecefTary : however, where the fub- 

 foil is a brick-earth, which is not unfrequently 

 the cafe, crofs-furrowing becorries abfolutely 

 neceffary to good managem.ent, though not 

 always put in practice. 



Some neat hufbandmen roll their ^' wheat- 

 figgs" immediately after fowing, A common 

 roller takes two ridges ar once, the horfes draw- 



VotL. L Q^ ing 



