53S 5AIKF(^N. 



contemplation. CoiUra6iing avoids this: it also admits 

 a progressive experiment in wliich to feel ycur way; but 

 a bounty plunges at oiicc to the full extent oi'tiie measure. 

 —A. Y. 



FLAX 



Is much cultivated about Wisbcacli, and in the culti- 

 vated parts to Dovvnhani, at Outwell, &c. Four acres 

 one rood was this year sold as it stood, for the purchaser to 

 be at all following expenses, tor 16I. 5s. 6d. per acre; and 

 as high as 17I. has been given. 



SECT. XVIII. — SAINFOIN. 



One of the most valuable plants that were ever intro- 

 duced into the agriculture of this kingdom, and it may be 

 asserted, without danger of contradiction, that it has bceri 

 too little cultivated in Norfolk, especially in periods when 

 the price of corn has been low. 



In 1784 Mr, Coke had 400 acres ; an extent to wliich 

 he carried this excellent grass, in order to be able to feed 

 off" all his turnips by tlie end of March, avoiding thereby 

 the common evil of permitting them to run up to blossom,- 

 for supporting the flock in April, by which the succeed- 

 ing barley is always materially damaged : he found the 

 objeiSl well answered. The hay was given in well con- 

 trived racks on wheels, so that both the hay and the sheep'^3 

 heads while feeding, are under cover from rain. A space 

 sown with winter tares received the slieep in May, if the 

 layerswere not ready for them. 



The same excellent cultivator then made an experiment 

 on this grass ; ten acres were sown with an addition of white 



clover; 



