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thrown light on to the hills, without carting on to them.— • 

 He never turns them over. Mr. Brown puts no value 

 on the dung made by straw-fed heasts. He has also tried 

 dung collected from commons, and found it of little or no 

 service. He remarked also, that the dung wtiich in long 

 snows has been de])osited by sheep under hedges, has 

 proved of very small use. Mr. Brown, and other good 

 farmers in Fleg, are attentive, in carting out muck, &:c. 

 to make the drivers keep on tl.e head-land till they come 

 to tlie end of the land which is manuring, so as to make 

 each ridge hear its exacSl proportion of damage, if any ; 

 for want of this attention, if the men are left to themselves, 

 they make roads across from the gate, in every direction, 

 to tlie great injury of the crop. 



Mr. Syele, of South VVaLsham, thinks over-year dung a 

 bad system : he is in the common praclice of the co'jntry, 

 but were he to farm a strong soil, he would carry out 

 long dung dire611y to the land : and on all soils it cannot 

 be too new, if it be in the right state. 



Mr. Francis, at Martham, no over-year muck, but 

 in manuring for whear, some left was carried on for tur- 

 nips, and there tiie ciop not so good, though perhaps a 

 fuller plan:. He has tried long muck, fresh from the yard, 

 and it does as well as any, hut nor quite so quick a growth 

 for the fiist six wtcks. He has no objciSlion to the prac- 

 tice, but the difficulty of burying it. He likes the idea of 

 the skim coulter. He carts on to heaps, and if the team 

 goes on, always turns the heap. He lays twelve loads per 

 acre for turnips, and likewise eight for wheat. This large 

 manuring, common in these hundreds, depends much en 

 the quantity of marsh and fen land, abounding in all this 

 country, and which commonly yields a great plenty of 

 rough coarse fodder and rushes, for thatch atid Utter. 



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