3x4 RETROSPECTIVE VIEW OF 



at prefent, difgraceful to Englifli Agri- 

 culture. The pradice of Eail Norfolk is 

 perhaps the befl which this Diftrid could 

 adopt. For a minate detail of that prac- 

 tice, fee the Rural Economy of Nor- 



POLK. 



In the M AN AGEMEISTT OF LEY grounds, 



fomething is evidently requifite to be done : 

 many of them, at prefent, are fliamefully 

 unprodudive. If the Norfolk plan of 

 management were wholly adopted, and the 

 duration of the leys confined to one whole 

 year, fowing them with Wheat the fecond, 

 they might with ftrid: propriety be mown 

 for hay, the iirft year. But fhould they be 

 continued, as at prefent, in pafture grounds, 

 during five, fix, or feven years, every eiforE 

 ihould be made, to prevent fo ruinous an 

 operation from b?ing necefiliry -, or, if it 

 cannot be wholly prevented, its injury 

 ihould be rendered as light as poflible, by 

 mowing early, before the taller herbage has 

 had time to deftroy the. undergrowth, and 

 injure its own roots. See the Minutes. 



The quantity of WATERED grassland 

 may doubtiefs be much encreafed , aild the 



prefent 



