266 CLOVER. 



All round Downham the lawd, In some measure, sick 

 of clover ; and in that case, their variations are vetches, 

 and by some, potatoes. Also sowing white clover, trefoil, 

 and ray grass, leaving it two or three years, and breaking 

 up for pease. 



At Besthorpe, tired of clover ; change it for trefoil, if 

 it stands, mow the first growth for hay, and the second 

 often for seed. 



In Marshland I saw many very fine crops of pure red 

 clover, and the malady, of the land being sick of it, is un* 

 known. Mr. Dennis, of Wigenhall, St. Maries, sows 

 it on his wheat in the spring, eating off the crop and har- 

 rowing well, before and after sowing the clover, and is 

 sure to succeed : mows it twice for hay, and the best of 

 all their wheats succeed — gets six coombs an acre. 



From the preceding notes it appears, that one of the 

 greatest difficulties which have for some years been found 

 in the Norfolk husbandry, has been the failure of clover. 

 I have often heard this, as a general fa6i, denied by men 

 whose pra6lice ought to have taught them better : in the 

 common management there can be no doubt of the facl, 

 and it well deserves the serious consideration of the far- 

 mers of this respedtable county, whether there may not be 

 devised some methods, beyond those already tried, to cor- 

 rcdl the evil. 



An observation 1 made, during nine years that I was 

 in the constant habit of viewing the farm of Mr. Ar- 

 BUTHNOT, in Surrey, may here merit some attention. 

 When he began to farm, the land was sick of clover, in- 

 somuch, that it was almost sure to fail, from having been, 

 perhaps for a century, sown every four or five years. 

 My friend adopted the course of- — i. beans 5 2. wheat ; 

 3. clover, in v.hich k occurred once in three years, and 



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