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Mr. Coke considers hard stocking the j^eeds ns the best 

 preparation tor wheat, and tlie safesc means of saving tl;c 

 expense of oil-cake. — Sound doctrine, adds Air. M. Hill. 



Mr. H. Blythe, of Burnham, finds his land sitk of 

 red clover, and therefore sows it in ahernate rounds witli 

 ray, and also with the trefoil and white clover of the other 

 round. Rests two years, feeding most of the layers 

 through both. 



Mr. Wright, of Stanhow, does not like white clover; 

 he thinks it a bitter food, and that sheep do not cat it 

 kindly ; so that while much food seems to be on the 

 ground, stock tlo badly. This is an uncommon opinion, 

 but I remember Mr. Bakewell starting the same idea. 



Mr. Dursgate finding his land sick of clover, sows 

 it alternately, a round witli, and a round without, substi- 

 tuting white clover and trefoil ; ray-grass with both : no 

 doing without that ; all other seeds should come but once 

 in ten or twelve years. 



Mr. RisHTON, at Thornhani, clover one round in tlic 

 four-shift husbandry, and other seeds alternately : finds lit- 

 tle difference in the wheat. 



Mr. Styleman, at Snettisham, sows seeds for a two 

 years lay; clover, izlb. one round, and in the next, tre- 

 foil, 61b. white clover, 41b. and half a bushel of ray- 

 grass,.- in which system clover stands. 



At Hillingdon the land is sick of clover, and therefore 

 ttie seeds are varied alternately by trefoil and white Dutch. 

 81b. of red clover, 41b. of trefoil, or wliite, and one-quar- 

 ter or half a bushel of ray : variation, 81b. trefoil, 41b. of 

 white, with the ray. If it is good enough to come to the 

 scythe, it is all mown the first growth. 



At Grimstone it is no wonder the land is sick of clover, 

 for they are in the four-shift husbandry: they vary it with 

 trefoil and white Dutch alternately. 



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