4l6 BURNT EARTH, 



POND-WEED. 



Several persons in Norfolk are in the regular hnl>it of 

 clearing their rivers and pcnds just before turnip-sowing: 

 tliey cart tlicm immediately on to the land, and plough in 

 as muck, and load for load they are equal to farm-yard 

 dung. Mr. Coke thus manures from 20 to 30 acres an- 

 nually from the lake at Holkham. 



Mr. Crowe, of Lakenham, manures four acres an- 

 nually for turnips with the weeds of a river that runs by his 

 farm ; the plants are chiefly the Phelandniim aquat'icunt ^ 

 Slum nodlfiorum (water-hemlock and water- parsnip). He 

 lays 20 loads of 30 bushels per acre, and ploughs in di- 

 re6lly : are as good on sand and mixed loam as the best 

 dung, but not equal on stiff soils. 



Mr. Bloomfield, of Eillingfold, has been in the habit 

 of manuring his turnip-land with weeds fresh from the 

 river, and ploughed in quickly ; they have answered as 

 •well as vard-muck. 



EUrxNT EARTH. 



Mr. Salter, of Winborough, whose fine farm offers 

 many proofs of excellent management in every part, burns 

 all the turf and rubbish which comes out of the numerous 

 ©pen drains he has made throughout his moory meadows, 

 as well as the first spit of many hedge rows and borders : 

 this he spreads on the grass, with earth from hills and rows. 

 In his turnips, observing one part of a field finer than the 

 rest, I found it had been manured with cottagers' ashes, 

 who burn the parings 6f grass-land : these ashes never fail 

 of giving great crops. 



At Summer-green, in Dickleburgh, I observed a large 



heap 



