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1. Turnips, 3. Seeds, 



2. Barley, 4. Wheat, barley, or pease. 

 But on heavy land : 



1. Summer-fallow, 3. Seeds, 



2. Barley, 4. Wheat. 



Some put in pease or beans on the seeds, and then wheat, 

 Mr. Mildred, on the Duke of Norfolk's beauti- 

 ful farm at Earsham, near Bungay; on his lighter land, 

 the four-shift husbandry ; but on the heavy : 



1. Summer-fallow, 4. Wheat, dibbled, 



2. Barley, 5. Beans or oats, the for- 



3. Seeds, mer dibbled. 



His seeds for change are trefoil and white clover: he 

 does not like ray grass, therefore sows as little as possible. 



Mr. Burton, of Langley, summer-fallows the strong 

 land at Hempnal, for barley and wheat alternately ; taking 

 beans after either, and wheat after tlie beans. 



On the sandy and gravelly loams of the hundred of 

 Loddon, the four- shift husbandry ; but as the land is sick 

 of clover, they sow it but once in eight years: sow white 

 clover and trefoil instead of it. 



Mr. Salter, near Dereham, on land so wet as to re- 

 quire much holloW'draining : 



1. Turnips, 3. Clover, 



2. Barley, 4. Wheat. 



But it does not keep his land free from charlock. 

 1776, at Walpole : 



1. Fallow, 4. Beans, 



2. Wheat, 5. Wheat. 



3. Oats, 



Mr. Forby's, at Fincham, on strong land: 

 1. Cabbages, dunged for, and worth, on an average, 

 ^I. per acre ; 

 2. Barley, 9I coombs ; 



p 3 3. Clover, 



