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Watton, tlie farms are generally small: about the latter 

 place, 200I. Is a common size, and some of lOOL and 

 even 60I. and 50I. Mr. Bougen, of Sayliam, 700I. 

 the largest in the neiglibourhood. 



Entering. — Mr. Johnson, ofThurning, entering 500 

 acres in sad order, he i)lougIied up and iallowcd the seeds, 

 for which he ha<l given 30s. an acre, 



Mr. Overman, at Burnham, entered his new farm 

 hired of Mr. Coke, with a most decisive energy. He 

 paid per acre for liberty to fallow land, from which his 

 predecessor had liberty to take a crop ; he fallowed other 

 lands lefr under seeds, and for sowing which he had also 

 paid. He brought a ship-load of hurdles frorn Sussex, far 

 defending his young setts: he marled such part of the 

 farm as wanted it, the first year ; remarking to me tiic 

 great difference between enjoying the return from im- 

 provements for 19 or 20 years, rather than, by delav, 

 possessing tiiem only 14 or 16. 



Stock. — The Rev. Mr. Priest, on 85 acres of very 

 good land at Scarning, near Dereham, and 15 other acres 

 at some distance, keeps 100 excellent South Down sheep, 

 6 cows, 5 horses, and has had a larger stock ; yet yc acres 

 of it are arable. 



Size. — In discourse with ?vlr. Thurtell, on the size 

 of farms, he remarked that nothing could, in his opinion, 

 be more absurd, than the prejudice against large farms'. 

 Wherever he has madt: any observation, large farms pro- 

 duce much more for the public consumption tiian smnM 

 ones: that all improvements, if they arise at all, must b? 

 from large farmeiT, who are able, and i« ;w a-days wil- 

 ling, to make experiments. And he further observed, 

 that whatever croj) would produce most money, was of 

 most public benefit ; an obscrvatioii perfcdly coinciding 



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