and wptrior Mode of Husbandry. SIS 



and much approved : deep ploughing is prac- 

 tised with much success, and executed in a 

 masterly manner. The drilling is correctly 

 performed, and the intervals kept perfectly 

 clean : on this depends the whole merit of the 

 system ; for where the hoeing is neglected, the 

 practice becomes injurious. In the sedulous 

 attention to the performance of this duty con- 

 sists the chief excellence of the Norfolk hus- 

 bandry. Nothing can detract from the pre- 

 eminence to which that county and the adjoin- 

 ing one of Suffolk are entitled, in respect to the 

 system of drilling. 



Particular attention is paid to the culture of 

 potatoes : the drills in which they are planted, 

 by means of the plough, are wide, for the pur- 

 pose of cleaning and earthing up the crop. As 

 the cottiers were busily employed in taking up 

 theirs from the lazy beds, it afforded an excel- 

 lent opportunity of ascertaining the weight 

 produced by the different modes of cultivation. 

 Those drilled yielded at the rate of three thou- 

 sand one hundred and sixty-eight stone, or one 

 hundred and fifty barrels the Irish acre ; the 

 best of those planted on the lazy beds, one hun- 

 dred barrels, or two thousand and sixty stone ; 

 but the produce most commonly obtained does 



