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4. Incrcafing the quantity, as well as the 

 quality of the herbage, by manuring and 



WATERING. 



The laft, namely, wateking, is a praftke 

 entirely unknown to the generality of Norfolk 

 hufbandmen. Indeed, until the furface of 

 their meadows be adjufied, and the fubter- 

 ranean "waters removed, a knowledge of the 

 pradiice would be ufeleis to them. 



Without this advantage, ffreat as it would 

 be in addition, 1 will venture to afiert, from 

 an extraordinary attention to this fubjedt, that 

 the prefent rental value of the meadows of 

 Eafl-Norfolk might be doubled ; and this ac 

 the expence of one-third of the improved 

 value. 1 will venture to go farther, and give 

 it as my clear opinion, that the meadow-lands 

 of Eaft-Norfolk, with a limilar proportion of 

 expence, might, on a par, be improved ten 

 fhillings an acre. 



We have, in a former fecflion, eftimated 

 the number of arable acres in Norfolk, to be 

 fix hundred thoufand. Suppofing the propor- 

 tion of arable to meadow-land to be as twenty 

 to one (ten to one would, perhaps, be a nearer 

 proportion) the number of acres of meadow 

 will be thirty thoufand, which, at ten faiilings 



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