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dally on heavy land. When co*cvs are to eat clover, they 

 reckon a small mixture of ray beneficial, to prevent hoving. 

 Clover is very apt to die in the winter ; tliey have repeated 

 it so often that the land is sick ; this has occasioned the 

 substitution of trefoil, ray, and white clover. 



Upon the various soils near Dereham, towards Bilney, 

 and the adjoining i)arishes, ray is much sown, yet does 

 badly. The opinion in favour of it lessens gradually ; 

 they admit that after Midsummer it is good for nothing. 



All over Earsham hundred the land is sick of clover, 

 so that it will not stand if sown oftener than once in eight 

 or ten years. White Dutch, trefoil, &c. are substituted, 

 but the wheat is not equally good after them. 



Over the hundred of Loddon the same remark is appli- 

 cable ; they use as little ray-grass as may be. 



Mr. Thurtell, near Yarmouth, ventures clover not 

 oftener than once in eight years ; substitutes white Dutch, 

 trefoil, and ray-grass; but he thinks that land tires of 

 th'ese seeds as well as of clover, and therefore on a portion 

 of his land omits all, and sows pease. Mows clover twice 

 — seeds once. 



Mr. Ever IT, of Caistor, sows clover but once in eight 

 "or ten years, either substituting white Dutch and trefoil, 

 or baulking it of seeds entirely : he mows clover twice tor 

 hay, and the \vheat is the better for such mowing ; re- 

 marking at the same time, that when he has soiled a part 

 of a field of tares and left the rest for wheat, that crop has 

 been better after tlie latter than after the former : a sure 

 proof, he observed, of the benefit of shading the ground. 



Mr. Ferrier, of Hemsby, finds no difference in his 

 ^vheat, whether it follows clover or other seeds. 



Mr. Syble, of South Walsham, thinks that nothing 

 prepares for wheat so well as a good crop of clover. 

 Mr. Francis, of Martham, has found, in common 



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