520 CABBAGES. 



viewed with much pleasure, and found them very great 

 indeed. In such an extent they are necessarily sown at 

 different seasons for succession, both winter and spring. 

 Some lie has dibbled ; but intends drilling many in future. 



Mr. M. Hill only winter tares for soiling his horses. 



Sowing tares for summer feeding sheep, Mr. Henry 

 Blythe remarks, is an absolutely new improvement in 

 the husbandry of West Norfolk, and he thinks it a very 

 great and important one ; he does not know who first in- 

 troduced it: he is largely in the praclice himself, sowing 

 both winter and spring sorts, and in succession. 



Mr. DuRSGATE is in this husbandry. 



I found Mr. Hart, at Billingford, feeding off his 

 spring tares, the winter ones, first growth, being done : 

 the sheep were in pens moving regularly forward ; 

 brought in at night, and in the day on the layers: a piece 

 of 20 by 30 yards given every day to 400 breeding ewes. 

 They draw back on the cleared land, not resting on the 

 unfinished tares. They were sown on a two years ollond. 

 and as fast as cleared, the land was tempered for wheat. 

 Winter tares fed off in May in the same field, are now, 

 in August, a fine crop again for the sheep, when they 

 finish the spring ones. 



SECT. XIV. CABBAGES, 



The Rev. J. Forby, of Fincham, was a most successful 

 cultivator of this plant. Two acres produced 28 tons per 

 acre, carried off the land, a strong v^'et loam on clay ; 

 two adjoining acres of turnips were fed off with sheep : 

 the whole sown, after three earths, with oats, to the eye 

 perfectly equal, and the whole produce 90 coombs, or 12 

 quarters per acre. Seeds took well, and he cut nine tons 



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