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or three years ; by whicli means it comes to a good pas- 

 ture soon ; but if mown, it is a long time before it gets a 

 good covering. 



Break up. — Mr. Reeve, of Wighton, broke up an old 

 pasture m 1800, for oats, which he dibbled in on the flag ; 

 he then scaled the oat slubble, ?ind on a second earth, 

 drilled in another crop of oats : the wyer worm did some 

 mischief to both. He then laid on 60 loads an acre of 

 made, and 10 of muck, and sowed turnips, which zxc 

 now one of the finest crops I have ever seen. 



At Sneitisham, 600 acres of common being enclosed by 

 adl of parliament, much of it was broken up, in 1801, for 

 oats, by mere ploughing : they did not succeed at all. In 

 1802, they ploughed and took oats again, and the crop still 

 vvoriC. 



Mr. Crisp broke up a four-acred field of old grass 

 behind his house at Dereham ; the four last crops in 

 which, paid him lool. a year ; one of which was cole- 

 seed ; one wheat ; another year hemp, and after it turnip 

 seed; the former producing 149I. 12s.; and the turnip 

 seed, 18 coombs, at 36s. a bushel, 129I. 12s. It is now 

 (1802) in wheat, and the crop very fine : he has railed off a 

 walk around this field, and has laid it down to grass: such 

 a piece of land affords entertainment, and might yield in- 

 struction in experiments ; — but who has not a grass field 

 to walk into, which alfords nothing of the sort? 



Mr. Salter, of Winborough, upon his finely culti- 

 vated farm of about 800 acres, of which he had permis- 

 sion to break up a large portion of old and miserably bad 

 grass, poisoned with springs, and over-run with bushes, 

 and all sorts of aquatic rubbish, first surrounded every field 

 with ditches five feet broad and foui deep ; then hollow- 

 drained every acre completely ; and broke up for a crop of 

 dibbled oats ; took a second crop of oats, and on the stubble 



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