ay*' WHEAT, 



Course. — The Rev. Mr. Hos te, on the strong- soils of 

 Goodwick, which require hollow-draining, ploughs up his 

 second years' clover lav after the first crop, a clean earth; 

 harrows well, then cross-plcjughs clean, and hai rowing 

 again, gives a third earth, and tresh harrowing tor drilling 

 die seed ; throwing the surface into stitches or lands, just 

 of the proj)er hreadth for one movement of the drill plough, 

 tlie horse treading only in the furrows. Two clean earths 

 and much harrowing, tlierefore, are incurred for the sake 

 ofdnlling; and Mr. HosTE is clear, that on his stiff land 

 it cannot be drilled well on a single earth, as in the Holk- 

 ham distridt^ 



Mr. Overman, of Burnham, shewed me a field of 

 very fine wheat, perfcdily clean, drilled on a six years 

 ]aycr; he remarked, that it was laid down positively free 

 from spear-grass, and when that is the case, you will find 

 it clean after six years, as well as after two. 



Mr. Francis, of Mart!iam, when he keeps a Inyer 

 two vears, puts in wheat equally on one earth: he has set 

 it in the same manner on a three years layer, ihe ciop very 

 fine, and got great oats after it. 



Tillage. — One of the most lemarkable circumstances of 

 the Norfolk husbandry, and the most difficult to account 

 for, is the system, very common, of ploughing a lay in- 

 tended for wheat, three or four times, beginning in June 

 or July. In Suffolk, and in other well cultivated counties 

 where the soil is good, no preparation for wheat is better 

 than clover ploughed once at sovving time. In this coun- 

 try, on our goods lands, we never think of giving mere 

 tillage, and get as fine crops as can be seen : now, the ne- 

 cessity of tearing a loose soil in pieces, the fault of which 

 is too great looseness, while no such necessity exists on 

 much stiffer soils, appears to be quite a paradox. I mac)e 

 particular inquiries of Mr. Coke on this point, and found 



that 



