LUCERNE. 245 



Keeping lO horses 19 weeks, at 6s. per horse 



per week - - - > £-^1 ^ O 



Sixty-two loads of compost, at 3s. per load -960 



66 6 o 

 Dedu6t 2f coombs of oats, at 12s. £.1 10 o 

 ChafF - - - 060 



Refuse straw and litter - - 200 



3 16 o 



Total - - 62 10 o 



Or per acre - ;^-i3 17 



With the greatest respe(5^, T remain, 



SIR, 



Your most obedient humble servant, 



RICHARD FOWELL. 



Snetterton, near Harling^ 

 Norfolk^ 1st Dec. 1801. 



I viewed the crop described in the preceding account, 

 and found it very fine, regular and clean: Mr. Fowell 

 had twelve horses soiling on it, and some pigs in the yard, 

 which had nothing else, and which were in very good 

 order. He has seven acres ; has sown ten more with this 

 year's barley, which I examined, and found it had taken 

 perfedlly well, and promised to he a fine crop: he intends 

 eight acres more next year, meaning to mow it for hay. 

 The ten acres are the half of a field, the other half sain- 

 foin, for comparison. He thinks the lucerne will beat 

 the sainfoin. 



Mr. Be VAN sowed at Riddles wortii, in 1793, thirteen 

 acres broad-cast, with barley ; seed ten pounds an acre, 

 and also six pounds an acre of red clover, on good sand, 

 worth 12s. an acre. In 1794 he mowed half for soiling 



and 



