COURSE OF CROPS, iga 



1803. — He now tells me, that the land I saw full of 

 couch, is at present as clean as a garden. 



Mr. Pitts, of Thorpe Abbots, remarked to me the 

 great consequence, for the destru6tion of weeds, of plough- 

 ing a summer-fallow just before, and also diredtly after 

 harvest. 



SECT. III. — COURSE OF CROPS. 



If I were to be called on to name oiie peculiar circum- 

 stance, which has done more honour to tiie husbandry of 

 Norfolk than any other to be thought of, I should, with- 

 out hesitation, instance this of the rotation of cropping. 



I should not hazard, perhaps, too bold an asseraon, 

 were I to declare that, till the accession of his presenc 

 Majesty, there were to be found few just ideas on this 

 subjed, in the works upon husbandry of any author pre- 

 ceding that period: if any thing tolerable occurs, it is 

 mixed with so much that is erroneous, tliat credit cannot 

 be given even for what is good. The fields of the rest of 

 the kingdom presented a similar exhibition : right courses 

 hardly any where, perhaps, no wlierc, to be found. But 

 in West Norfolk, the predominant principle which go- 

 verned their husbandry at that period; as well as ever since, 

 was the carefully avoiding two white corn crops in suc- 

 cession. Turnips were made the preparation for barley ; 

 and grasses, that fo*" wheat, or other grain. 



I have viewed various parts of the countv, at different 

 periods in the last thirty years, and have found these ideas 

 steadily adhered to. 



COURSES ON SAND, AND ON TURNIP LOAMS. 

 Some of the finest rye I have any wliere been, was on 

 Mr. BEVAN'sfarm, in 1802, after two successive years 

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