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immense. The barley follows tlic clavecl tnrmps : Mr. 

 Farrow had 17 coom'os an acre ofhailey big: with that 

 crop clover: some with ray and trefoil. 



Among the improvers of Norfolk, Mr. Overman, of 

 Burnham, ranks very high. When he frrst took the farm, 

 the land surveyor employed by the landlord pronovuiced 

 that it was a dang^erous error to think of wheat, as the 

 soil was adapted only to rye and liglit oats. The great 

 success he has had in raising very fine crops of wliear, 

 proves that his husbandry has been conduded on sound 

 principles. 



Improvements on lieaths anti sheep-walks, which bring 

 them from the state of desert wastes to be produ6iive of 

 corn and grass^ are certainly in the very first class; bat 

 there are others which, though less striking, manifest abun- 

 dance of exertion, vigour and peiseverance. Mr. Over- 

 man took a farm of Mf. Coke, at Michaelmas, 1800, 

 which was, as I could easily juvlge from a part, the im- 

 provement (if which was not finished, in a very bad state: 

 and this spirited farmer not being of a temper to dream 

 over any thing, determined to bring the wlwle into order 

 as soon as possible : very little remained to do when I saw 

 it in June 1802, and that little would be finished by wheat 

 sowing. Besides paying the outgoing tenant 5I. los. per 

 acre for desisting from sowing tlie lays, and summer-fal- 

 lowing lands which many would have sown, largely ma- 

 nuring, and other more common exertions, he is going to 

 enclose the whole farm at his own expense, throwing down 

 the old ragged fences, and arranging the fields anew ac- 

 cording to his intended shifts: but planting quick he post- 

 jjones, till all spear-grass and weeds are quite destroyed : all 

 corn sown is drilled, and as clean as a garden- He brings 

 rape-cake in his own vessel j has a numerous flock of 

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