%^ BARNEY. 



across xht ridges ; then works the land in the same direc- 

 tion with Cook's scarifier ; and ploughs as soon as the 

 close is finished, with the ridges, leaving it till ;eed time : 

 harrows, and drills, at nine inches, on this s'ale turrow. 

 The soil is a good sand, hut light. He sows the grass- 

 seeds after the harrows, and before the drilling. Thesuccess 

 answers every cxpcclation : his crops, which I viewed, 

 were fine. He has twenty acres, half drilled at nine inches, 

 and half at six inches three-quarters, for comparison. 

 This marked variation from Norfolk management came 

 from Suffolk : he has a relation near Ipswich, where spring 

 ploughing is going out of fashion amongst the best farmers. 

 For barley, several farmers have remarked, that the 

 great saving by the use of tlie di UI, is forvi arding business : 

 the common pra6lice has been to give three earths ; but by 

 means of the drill, one is saved ; this a material object, as 

 the farmer gets sooner to his turnip-fallows. About half a 

 bushel of seed is also snved. As to crop, the bulk is reckon- 

 ed less than from broadcast sowing, but the corn as much, 

 and of rather a better quality. They have not observed 

 anv difference in ripening, iseeds are sown broad-cast^ 

 and harrowed in ; no horse-hoeing in this case. Tbis 

 management depends on the land being clean. When 

 barley is sown broad-cast on tv/o earths, it is harrowed 

 in, and does not come so regular, not being put in at an 

 equal depth. 



I have rarely seen the drill so superior to the broad-cast, 

 as in a large field of Mr. Bevan's : in t8o2, the crop 

 drilled was not only consideiably superior to the broad- 

 cast, but vastly freer from wceils ; especially poppies, which 

 had damaged the broad-cast much ; as neither had any 

 hoeing or weedir.q, this efi'ecl is remarkable, and what I 

 cannot account for, nor could Mr. Be van. The whole 

 after turnips ; one-half fed, one-half carted, alternately. 



Mr. 



