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a vear (1802) ; they were first liand, and then horse-hoed ; 

 the rows 18 inches asunder : hand-hoeing performed as easy 

 as in broad-cast crops. 



Mr. Twist, of Bretenham, has seen drilled turnips, 

 but did not like them well enough to adopt the praiSlice, 

 though a great driller of corn. 



II. Consumption. — Mr. Be van has for some years pur- 

 sued the common pradlice of drawing half his crop alter- 

 nately by stitches, and carting them to his yard or to layers, 

 for cattle ; and feeding the other half on the land by sheep ; 

 he has long suspedled that he lost by it : this year his bar- 

 ley is so inferior to what it ought to be, as to afford entire 

 convi(5tion of it; and he is determined never more to re- 

 peat it. The sands of Riddlesvvorth are not rich enough 

 to bear this treatment. 



Mr. Drake, of Billingford, carts off his turnips with 

 quarter-carts, the horse and one wheel going in ihe fur- 

 row, and only one wheel on the land, and that on the 

 crown of the ridge. The mischief thus done, he says, is 

 less than in any other method he has seen. The soil 

 strong and wet. 



Upon good land Mr. Coke draws half and feeds half; 

 but on the v/eaker soils feeds all. 



It is common with many farmers in West Norfolk to 

 draw out the largest roots for carting home to bullocks, 

 and for feeding the smaller ones in the field by sheep. 

 Carting damages many ; but there is a great advantage in 

 leaving the small ones, which resist the frost the best. 



Mr. MiTCHEL, of Houghton, having a great super- 

 fluity of turnips, in April, 1791 (a circumstance not 

 uncommon in Norfolk), used a tool for cutting them 

 into four quarters ; it was a broad knife, crossed at 

 right angles, widi a handle about three feet long ; women 

 used it, and the expense was but a few sliijlings per acre. 



0^2 I have 



