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dry IS much improved of late years: summer-fallowing, 

 heretofore so common, is quite done away, yet the land 

 cleaner. Small trifling enclosures are thrown together, 

 the hedges and pollards grubbed, and the sun and air ad- 

 mitted. Dibbling has spread very greatly. 



Mr. Palgrave, of Coltishal, has no doubt of the 

 improvement that has taken place in 17 years; every thing 

 is better done, and business carried on with more anima- 

 tion: drilling is spreading, and dibbling increased. 



Mr. Parmenter, of Aylesham, has not the least 

 doubt of husbandry being greatly improved : more Jand ir> 

 cultivation, and a greater expense in manuring, and every 

 other article bestowed. 



Mr. Stylem an has improved his Ringstead farm from 

 es. to 15s. an acre. A farm in Snettisham, which he has 

 let, from lis. in 1783, to 17s. in 1798 ; and has laid 

 out, improved, built, and let seven farms, at a very con- 

 siderable improvement; and this he considers as the most 

 profitable objedl of a gentleman's husbandry. 1 viewed 

 several of his new farms, and found the buildings on a ra- 

 tional scale ; so small, yet convenient, that the expense 

 was no formidable objeftion, even for small farms. He 

 has also accommodated several tradesmen in tlie village, 

 with closes of land for their horse or cow, for which they 

 are glad to give a very high rent, even to 3I. an acre : this 

 should universally be done ; and to the poor also, though 

 at a lower rent. 



This gentleman has no doubt of the husbandry of the 

 vicinitv being much improved in 20 years, exclusive of 

 new inclosures: the crops were then disfigured by weeds, 

 hut now, every man is ashamed to have such seen on his 

 farm: drilling and dibbling have done much. 



Mr. Saffory, of Downham, has no doubt of hus- 

 bandrv being much improved in 20 years ; they plough 



better. 



