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CHAP. XL 



IMPROVEMENTS. 



TO examine the county of Norfolk whli a single 

 eye to this ol)je(5l, and explain in full detail the causes, 

 progress, and consequences of the improvements which 

 have taken place, would demand at least a year's travcU 

 ling, and would require a large volume to contain the 

 notes necessary for s,uch an undertaking. The subject is 

 of such importance as to demand, in every work that con- 

 cerns the agriculture of tliis county, a particular attentipn. 

 The methods more especially to be treated arc : 



1. Draining, 



2. Irrigation, 



3. Manuring, 



4. Paring and burning, 

 ^. Embanking. 



SECT. I. — DI^AININC 



Mr. Freeman, of Swanton Morley, possecsing a trai5t 

 of meadows on the river, at Billingfold, poisoned by the 

 water being pent up by the mill at Elsing, and no fall to 

 be gained on his side for draining it, laid a truck under 

 the river, and, by permission, cutting a drain on the other 

 side, gained a fall, and by it drained 120 acres, to his 

 great profit, and also to lowering the soakage of his 

 neighbours' meadows. The improvement doubled at least 

 the value of the land ; the truck delivers a good stream 

 now (in August). 



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