300 WHEAT. 



Reaping. — Mr. Syble, of South Walsham, cuts very 

 low, and consequently does not haulm the stubbles ; which 

 he thinks a very inferior pradlice, if a farm is kept clean. 



Mr. Parmenter, miller, at Aylesham, a considerable 

 farmer also, and a very intelligent sensible man, remarked 

 to me, that the farmers let their wheat stand too long be- 

 fore cuttin^. They were apt to have a notion, that when 

 millers gave this opinion, it was speaking for their own 

 interest : but he cuts his own wheat before it is ripe, and 

 ■would do so on the largest scale, if he was not a miller: 

 the quality is far superior, and the crop just as good. 



*' Mowing has been pradtised at Hainford ; the crop very 

 clean, and dead ripe. The gatherers followed the scythe, 

 and the waggon the gatherers. Secured; at a trifling ex- 

 pence, without any risque from weather." — Marshall. 



Mr. M. Hill prefers cutting green, and never began 

 harvest but he wished he had began three days sooner. 



Stubbles. — Mr. Burton, of Langley, always haulms 

 his wheal stubbles, for littering the yards ; and it is the com- 

 mon management in Loddon hundred : by this means he 

 finds he can support his farm in heart, without buying 

 dung. At first coming, he bought barrack m.uck, at 5s. a 

 load, laying on eight an acre : three years of this brought 

 his farm into such a state, that he discontinued it. 



Produce. — About Watton, three quarters, on an average. 



The finest wheat I saw in thirty miles, was a small 

 broad-cast field at Tofts, of Mr. Payne Galway's ; it 

 promised to yield five quarters an acre. Tofts is in 

 a very poor distridi, but I have often remarked, that if a 

 good piece of land is found in such, it is usually uncom- 

 monly good. 



At Langley, Sec. average seven coombs. Caistor, and 

 average of Fleg hundred, seven to eight coomhs : four- 

 teen have been known, and were reaped by J. Hunting- 

 don, 



