228 TURNIPS. 



1 have known crops carted, at a great expense, into dltcli«s 

 to rot. 



Thirty years ago, thj;ee roods of turnips would fatten a 

 beast of 45 stone, or six Norfolk wethers, in East Nor- 

 folk. 



In 1770, I found the genera! method of consuming the 

 crop, from Norwich to Yarmouth, to be drawing every 

 other land for beasts, and eating the other half on the land 

 by sheep. 



At Thelton, the soil not being generally adapted to 

 sheep, the crop is consumed by bullocks in the farm-yards 

 [par yards J. 



Many drawn also at Billingford and Thorpe Abbots, 

 as well as through all that country, sheep not being a com- 

 nion stock. 



Mr. Thurtell, near Yarmouth, draws about one- 

 third of every field for bullocks, kept loose in the yard ; of 

 tying up in stalls, his expression was, it is done with! ten 

 beasts at liberty, make as much manure as thirty tied up: 

 not that they may not fat sotiiething faster? the difference, 

 however, is small, if there be sheds around the yard : if 

 he fatted a beast on a bet, it should be tied up. The i e- 

 niaining two-thirds of the turnip crop are eaten by buf- 

 locks, and fat sheep in the field ; and, in this consumption, ' 

 he is in the Fleg system of drawing, and carting enough to 

 spread a fair portion of the field cleared for the yard fatting; 

 and the whole of the turnips consumed in the field, arc 

 pulled and thrown. Tiiis method is now common in Fleg, 

 and the best farmers have an higli opinion of it : the stock 

 do better, and less ofFal is made, than where the roots are 

 not drawn. Mr. Everit, of Caisfor, is in the pradtice^ 

 and thinks, that io pull and throw, though in the same field, 

 will make the turnips go further by one-£fth, and the 

 stock doing better at the same time. One-horse carts ilie 



best for this work. 



Mr. 



