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COWS, and tliinks them the worst stock that can be on a 

 farm, as turnips are drawn for them, instead of, being 

 fed on the land by sheep ; and more straw is eaten by them, 

 instead of being trodden, than by anv other stock. His 

 expression was, " Ivjouldnot have a mouthful eaten.''* 



I have observed on many farms, the dung for turnipiS* 

 cither not well turned in, or harrowed out again, and olien 

 recommended the use of the skim coulter. I should ob- 

 serve, however, that on Mr. Coke's farm, his dung was 

 very well tucked in \ whether it would have been the saisie 

 had it been long dung, is a question. 



Mr. M. Hill remarks, that long muck is best, if lafd' 

 on in November, for turnips the following year; especial- 

 ly on wet cold land: but short and rotten for summer 

 inanuring on the land that has had three earths. The dif- 

 ference, in this case, little in the barley after the turnips, 

 but much in the turnips themselves. 



The Rev. Dixon Hoste, at Goodwick, prefers short 

 and rotten dung : dunghills for rotting seen in all that 

 country. 



The quantity per acre generally applied on the sand 

 distridl, north of Swafham, is 10 cart-loads; and every 

 man tills that quantity for a day's work. The price for 

 filling and spreading, is 3d. a load, of large three-horse 

 carts : three men spread ; one to throw our, and two to 

 break to pieces, and shake aboat equally. 



Mr. Overman desired me to remark a superiority of 

 a part of a field of sainfoin: it was very visible. He 

 could attribute it to nothing but that part of the field hav- 

 ing been dunged twelve years before: the soil a sharp 

 gravel, commonly thought to devour dung quicker than 

 inost other soils. 



Mr. DuRSGATE carts his muck on to heaps, and xhca 

 turns over: he has tried it long and fresh for lunnps, but 



likes 



