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^srs than usual between the turnip crops, they have" been 

 tlie berter; and are always best on new land. 



Mr. Dyble, of Scotter, it maybe supposed, admits no 

 such fa6l as land being tired of turnips ; for lie positively 

 asserted, that he never lost a crop in his life ; but never 

 gives any of the tillage while the land is the least wet ; it 

 cannot be too dry for turnips. 



No land tired of turnips at Oxnead. 



Upon this question Mr. Bircham remarked, that 40 

 years ago, they could get almost as good turnips without 

 dung, as they can now with it ; but still muck will do the 

 business well. 



Mr. Johnson, of Thurning, remarks on this point, 

 that he gets to the full as good turnips as his father did. 

 He never sows les;s than three pints. However, one ob- 

 servation of his looks like the land being tired, for he 

 reiuarks, that turnips, in his proposed course of eight years, 

 will come better from the sowings being longer apart. 



Mr. England, of Binham, has no other idea of lan4 

 being sick of turnips, than what results from the fadt, that 

 this crop was to be gained twenty years ago vv'ithout dung, 

 but not so at present. 



Mr. Reeve, of Wighton, agrees in the idea of his 

 neighbour, and makes a point of manuring all he sows. 



Mr. M. Hill is clear that the land sickens of turnips, 

 and that they are less in size every seven or ten years. 

 His bailiff has been in the farming line fifty years ; in dis- 

 course with him on the subjedt, he assured me, that there 

 was no sort of comparison to be made between the crops 

 at present and diose formerly raised: he has known two 

 turnips as much as a man could throw over the side of a 

 cart. But he thinks the crops of corn better now ; and he 

 is also sure, that more sheep are kept now than in the for- 

 pier periods, notwithstanding the w^lks being broken up. 



Mr. 



