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with his neighbours, that the land is sick of clover ; when 

 he baulks it by substituting pease, then the four-shift hus- 

 bandry instead of their usual Flog five-shift, turnips com- 

 ing after the wheat. Having no marsh or meadows, he 

 always keeps a layer two years, which is convenient also 

 for throwing turnips: puts in wheat equally on one 

 earth. 



Mr. HoRNARD, of Ludham, is not ready to admit 

 tliat the land of this country is so tired of clover as many 

 are readv to assert ; and he instances the case of a field 

 which to his knowledge has been 28 years in the common 

 course, sown once every five years ; there is nothing par- 

 ticular in the soil, and the last crop is as good as any for- 

 mer one. 



In Happing hundred I find the approach of a change in 

 pra61:ice : they admit at Catfield, that if clover recurs too 

 often the land will not yield it, but their method is not an 

 alternate substitution of other seeds, or baulking the land 

 for a round, but to take a six course shift instead of a five, 

 and mixing white clover and trefoil and ray, by which two 

 precautions they succeed well. The clover is often mown 

 twice for want of hay, fed the second year ; it is of great 

 importance, for there is no natural grass in the whole hun- 

 dred, or next to none ; all arable and commons. Such as 

 sow their land in five-shifts, cultivate vetches for soiling 

 their teams. 



Mr. Wiseman, of Happsborough, relies chiefly on 

 white clover, preferring it to any other : sows nineteen 

 pound an acre, though twelve the common quantity ; it 

 makes the best of hay, and he gets two waggon loads an 

 acre. 



Mr. Cubit, at Honing, ten pound of red clover, three 

 or four pound of while, and on the stronger soils a quarter 

 to half a peck of ray-grass, for two years ; the first year 



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