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end of turnip tillage. There is no doubt of their plough- 

 ing with ease an acre in four hours and a half. 



In the clays of Marshland all are foot or swing ploughs ; 

 never more than two horses used : they do an acre a day, 

 and in summer one and a half at two journeys. 



At Hemsby, each pair of horses two acres a day, at two 

 journeys. 



Thirty years ago the common price of ploughing was 

 2s. 6d. an acre in every part of Norfolk, except Marsh- 

 land : it is now 4s. ; in some places 3s. 6d. 



These notes of the quantity ploughed per diem, might 

 be multiplied in every part of the county ; the farmers in 

 every distri(5l of it, get more land ploughed in a day by 

 their men and horses, than on any similar soli in any other 

 part of the kingdom : not altogether to be attributed to the 

 merits of the plough, though it is certainly a good one ; 

 nor to any superior a(Sblvity in the horses : the cause is 

 more in the men, who have been accustomed to keep their 

 horses and themselves to a quick step, instead of the slow 

 one common in almost every other distrifl. 



Harrowing.' — This operation is no where better per- 

 formed than in Norfolk, where the farmers are very at- 

 tentive to finish their tillage in a very neat manner. In no 

 other county with which I am acquainted, have they the 

 excellent pradlice of trotting the horses at this work, 

 which gives a fineness and regularity in burying small 

 seeds, not to be attained with a slow regular motion of 

 the harrows. They harrow from 12 to 15 acres with a 

 pair of horses once in a place per diem. The pradlice of 

 walking the horses up hill, and trotting them c^own^ in the 

 same place, i*; an excellent one. 



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