386 WASTES. 



the oM flag time to rot, and will not exhaust the soil, so 

 frequently done with new lands. 



1802. Tlie ciops on the fields thus managed have been 

 very good, and are now groat. He continues of the 

 same ci)inion ; paving and burning he has not tried, but 

 has advised a friend to compare it witli this method. Mr. 

 Bevan now generally takes two successive crops of cole, 

 both fed off with sliecp (the latter greatly superior to the 

 first), and sows seeds with the rve. 



I crossed 400 acres of thick fern, called Eccles Com- 

 mon ; half in that parish and half in Snetrerton: Lord 

 Albkmarle lias mucli property in both; and being a 

 good farmer, it is to be hoped so fine a trail of land will 

 not long remain in such a horrid state, exhibiting in its 

 spontaneous produce, its great capabilities of yielding corn 

 and turnips most amply. 



The commons are immense at Actleborough ; Turn- 

 moor, Westear, Broad Moor, Fen and Row, Lyng, Ba- 

 con's Thorpe, Decoy, Bunrough ; these are all above loo 

 acres, and some above 2G0, with nianv smaller; I was 

 assured that they amount to between 2 and 3000 acres. 



Mr. F'arrov/, of Sliipdam, purchasing 200 acres of 

 Sayham common, under the aiSl ol enclosure, pur;,ued, in 

 breaking up, tiie practice common in Norfolk. He took 

 two crops of oats, and then clayed for turnips: some on 

 this common, and on that ot Ovington, have begun with 

 pease, and got very great crops; then oats, and then clav 

 for turnips: for t\'*o years past the pease have answereil 

 better than the oats ; the crops very large : the second crop 

 of oats tlic best, and have pioduced in manv instances 20 

 coombs per acre. 1 viewed various fields, both at Savhani 

 and Ovington, in 1 802, which promise that produce at 

 least. [ saw wheat also, which must be 12 or 13 coombs : 

 barley exceedingly great. In a woid, all the prcduds 



iiumensc. 



