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half of seed per acre ; some he dibbles, and hand-hoes in 

 either case twice, at 5s. and 4s. an acre, and reckons a fair 

 crop at six coombs ; he takes wheat after them on one 

 earth, and generally good ; the best, if it escapes tlie slug, 

 which in a wet season attacks the wheat in autumn : it is 

 about an inch long, the size of a tobacco-pipe, and of a 

 bluish white colour. 



In going round from Islington by Tilney and Terring- 

 ton to Lynn, I saw many crops of broad-cast beans full of 

 weeds. 



Mr. Thorp, on Governor Bentinck's estate, sows 

 beans in furrows ; keeps them clean, and gets fine wheat 

 after. 



1776. At Walpole, drilled in every third or fourth 

 furrow, and kept clean by both horse and hand-hoeing; 

 four quarters sometimes gained. Mr. Can ham, of 

 Southry, near Downham, had 60 acres thus cultivated in 

 1769, which yielded five quarters and an half round; in 

 1770 I viewed the wheat after them, and found it as clean 

 and as fine as any after fallows. He has often had five 

 quarters an acre after beans. 



This husbandry continues: in 1802 I found the same ; 

 and I am sorry to say without improvement. 



Produce at Walpole six coombs. 



Many are dibbled in rows, and kept clean and well 

 managed; Mr. Philip Griffin cultivates them in this 

 manner. 



Mr. SwAYNE, of Walpole, gets the best wheat after 

 beans, if it escapes the slug ; if the land is lightish, it is 

 common to put them in in every third or fourth furrow, 

 for ploughing between ; but on strong clay it is difficult 

 to get the plough in. Some dibble in, but others objcdl 

 to it, on account of their not being sufficiently buried. It 



