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better, manure more, and have carried all rough banks 

 and hills on to their fields. 



Upon the heavy lands of Goodwick and the vicinity, 

 husbandry is very little improved in the last fifteen years. 



Mr. Hill thinks that the husbandry around Waterden 

 has wonderfully improved in the last fifteen vears. He attri- 

 butes it chiefly to drilling, and the various conversations 

 which have taken place upon that topic. Another essen- 

 tial point, is the increase of sheep ; cows much lessened, 

 and consequently fewer turnips being drawn for them : if 

 the two greatest blood-suckers of an arable farm are to be 

 named (I use Mr. Hill's terms), they are a dairy cf 

 cows, and the sale of lambs from a merely breeding flock. 

 Mr. FowELL, of Snetterton, a very intelligent and ob- 

 serving cultivator, is clear that the husbandry of all that 

 vicinity is much improved in the last twenty years ; for 

 besides the introdudlion of drilling, the rotation is im- 

 proved. At that time, if their seeds laid two years, they 

 took two crops after them ; a pradlice of some few now; 

 but the better farmers, never more than one. Less tillage 

 is now given, yet the crops greater ; and they are much 

 improved in better exertions ; in hand- weeding, &c. 



Mr. Robinson, of Watton, has no doubt of husban- 

 dry, in general, being very much improved in 20 years ; 

 in almost every circumstance, 



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