296 vrHEAT. 



On the clavs of Marshland, where there are other signs 

 of bad management, they are much pestered with red weed. 

 May weed, clivers, &c. they are forced to weed much ; 

 Mr. Dennis, of Wigenhall, has paid a guinea an acre for 

 it: he hoes all his dibbled wheal. 



Tathing. — This is a singular husbandi y, which I did not 

 meet with till I entered Fleg, from Yarmouth. It con^ 

 sists in carting turnips on to wheat in February and March ; 

 thev call it to pull and throw on wheat, eating them on that 

 crop by sheep and bullocks, if sheep are kept ; but if not, 

 by bullocks alone. Mr. Ever it, of Caistor, assured me, 

 that the wheats thus treated, are the heaviest crops they 

 gain ; it makes the straw as stiff as reed. It is not prac- 

 tised as a preventive of the crop being root-fallen — for that 

 is little known here ; when finished, the field is harrowed, 

 and if necessary, hoed. 



Mr. Ferrier, at Hemsby, and his neighbours, are 

 in the same praf^ice ; and sometimes do it too late ; with 

 cows and bullocks. 



Mr. Brown, of Thrigby, confines this pradice to land 

 that is light,and subjed to red weedj never later than March, 

 and then wishes for^some showers diredly after: he finds 

 that this practice does not make the wheat too rank, but 

 the contrary, by stiffening the straw. The practice pretty- 

 general in Fleg ; and some, but not so much, in Blow- 

 field hundred. 



Mr. Syble does it like his neighbours, here and there, 

 on a piece given to poppy. The same rule at Repps and 

 Martham ; but some doubt whether it answers: Mri 

 Francis has been caught sometimes by drought, and he 

 has seen others. He remarked that the open fields give as 

 good wheat as the enclosures, yet never have turnips thrown 

 on them. He thinks it better to throw turnips on wheat 

 stubble, treading all well down for barley. 



Mr, 



