2^S Parley. 



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It is not merely a question between turnips and faliow^ 

 but beans should be more generally adopted: they are 

 (Coming in, but move slowly. 



SECT. V. — BARLEY. 



Norfolk is the greatest barley county in tlie king- 

 dom, this grain forming the chief dependence of most of 

 the farmers, in all except the very wettest pans of the 

 district. 



"The notes taken may be thus arranged : 



6. Depth, 



1. Course. — Mr, Haver's bailiff assured me, that he 

 gets as good barley on a fallow without muck, as he does 

 after turnios on the same strong; land tliat was well duntr- 

 ed : a good crop ten coombs ; rarely less than eight in any 

 i-nanagement. The husbandry is well condu61ed. After 

 harvest the fallow is laid on to ten-furrow ridges, so that 

 in spring they have only to plough and sow : to scarify 

 and sow would he better, the horses going only in the 

 furrows. 



Mr. Pitts, of Thorpe Abbots, also gets much better 

 barley on a fallow without manure, than after turnips welJ 

 manured for, if the land be heavy. 



Mr. Cubit, at Catfield, and his neighbours, get more 

 barley after wheat than they do after turnips drawn ; but 



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