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as I before remarked, peculiarly important 



in this country. It is by means of this 



courfe of crops that we fee in Norfolk, up- 

 on dry fands, great ftocks of all forts of 

 cattle, kept, and rows of hay flacks more 

 like a town than a farm yard. Debar a 

 Norfolk farmer from a turnip-hoe ; and 

 clover and ray-grafs, and all the wonders 

 of hufbandry that have been performed in 

 that country, would at once fink to no- 

 thing. 



Much of the foil upon the wolds in the 

 Eajl Rilling, is a light dry loam on lime- 

 ftone and chalk ; or, in other words, the 

 mod: proper of any for the production 

 of fainfoine, a noble grafs of uncommon 

 profit, but totally neglected, or rather un- 

 known in this tract of country. The far- 

 mers ought beyond a doubt to cultivate a 

 fufficient quantity of this grafs to fupply 

 the place of meadows and pafturas, where 

 fuch are naturally wanting or deficient. 

 For this purpofe, turnips ihould be fown 

 and well hoed, eat off with fheep, and 

 then barley fown, and with that four 

 Dufhels per acre of fainfoine feed. — This is 

 the moft improved of the common practice 

 in thofe countries where fainfoine is gene- 

 ral ; particular experiments direct: much 

 lefs feed, and a different method, but I re- 

 commend nothing here to common farmers, 



which 



