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bosh to the beam of the plougli, to brush it down for that 

 purpose. 



Upon a harsh stiff piece of inarshhuul, at Warham, Sir 

 J. Turner sowed huck, aiul i)loughed it in for wheat; 

 it answered well as a innnurc, besides saving much tillage. 

 Sir Thomas Beevor tried the samehusbandry on strong 

 clay, and got five-quarters of wheat per acre. 



YARD-DUNG. 



Through every part of West Norfolk, from Brandon 

 and Thetford, to Snettisham and Holkhain, t!ie farm-yard 

 dung, after foddering is over, is turned up in heaps in the 

 yard, or carted on to heaps in the tields, where it is tdrned 

 over for mixing: iVIr. Denton, of Brandon, lias made 

 an observation on this point, which has a tendency to a 

 change of system. It secnis from the general practice, 

 that the gendemen and farmers, for all are in tlie samelius- 

 bandry, do not conceive that the sun and wind have any 

 power of extracting those volatile particles which contri- 

 bute to the food of plants ; and the common way of leav- 

 ing the heaps when carted on to the land for some time 

 ^efore spreading, and again, when spread, before plough- 

 ing in, shew that this is the case. Here, however, I 

 must make an exception of Mr. Coke, whose teams I 

 saw so proportioned, that the dung was turned in as fast 

 as carried out, and very completely buried ; but it was 

 short. 



The observation alluded to is this — Mr. Denton shew- 

 ing me his beautifully improved warren farm at Feltwell, 

 h^ remarked, hov/ much better one half of a layer of seeds 

 was than the other ; occasioned by one part being manured 

 with long dung, and the other with old turned-over hort 

 dung. The soil, quite a sand : I observed the different 



appearance 



