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 CHAP. VIL 



ARABLE LAND. 



WE are now come to the grand objeil of Norfolk 

 husbandry: in all the other branches of agriculture the 

 county is not conspicuous for singularity of system, but 

 in the management of arable land much indeed will be 

 found interesting. 



SECT. I. — OF TILLAGE. 



It would be easy to expatiate on every branch of this 

 subjefl largely, but as much, in that case, would be insert- 

 ed in this Report, equally applicable to almost every county 

 in the kingdom, the writer will confine himself to the 

 observations he a6lually made in Norfolk. 



Ploughing. — There is a great difference in ploughing in 

 West Norfolk ; on some farms I have remarked the fur- 

 row to be cut flat and clean, but on others wrest baulked^ 

 by tilting the plough to the left, whicli raising the share 

 fin, makes that inequality, and is partly the occasion of 

 my having found so many ploughs at work which would 

 not go a single minute without holding. 



In East Norfolk the ploughmen, to prevent the soil 

 •when moist from turning up in whole glossy furrows, 

 which they term " scoring," tie a piece of strong rope- 

 yarn round the plate or mould-board, which by these 

 means is prevented from adling as a trowel upon the soil. 

 Marshall. — I found thi^ the pradice at present, I)ut 



was 



