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resulted from the enclosures in which he has been cm- 

 ployed. 



In all the enclosures in which Mr. Algur has been 

 concerned as a Commissioner, it has not been the pra«5lice 

 to put poor men to the proof of the legality of their claims, 

 but the mere praAice, and if they have proved the pradlicc 

 even of cutting turf, it has been considered as a right of 

 common, and allotted for accordingly. 



In the several parliamentary enclosures of Snettisham, 

 Ringstead, Heacham, Darsingham, Sharnborne, Fring, 

 Sedgford, Thornham, Tichwell, and Hunston, which 

 are all in Mr. Styleman's vicinity, the efFedt has been, 

 at least doubling the produce : many of the farm-houses 

 were before in the villages, and the distance to the fields 

 so great, that no improvements were undertaken. The 

 houses are now on the farms, and the improvements very 

 great. In respeftto the rent, the first leases were at a low 

 rate, from the allotted lands being in a most impoverished 

 condition : but on being let a second time, where that has 

 taken place, the rise has been considerable. 



In enclosures, in which Mr. Gooch, of Quidenham, 

 has been a Commissioner, claying found of great advan- 

 tage upon fresh land ; it divides and mixes well with the 

 decaying turf. Mr. Gooch recommends one earth for oats, 

 by all means dibbled ; then a second crop harrowed : then 

 turnips and barley, oroatslaid with seeds ; clover, trefoiie, 

 and a little ray, or better no ray. Leave it a year, and then 

 clay, if a deep loose bottom, iCO loads; but if shallow, 

 near brick-earth or clay, about 60. Leave it with the 

 clay on it a year, and it incorporates immediately. 



In the enclosures, particularly remarked by Mr. Brad- 

 riELD, of Heacham, two methods have been pursued, but 

 that intelligent farmer recommends on dry land, after grub- 

 bing the whins, to plough and dibble in oats ; then to clay 



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