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and spread upon the sandy uplands, and it produced a pro- 

 fusion of weeds, especiallv pcrskaria. 



Mr. Birch AM has used ilic silt out of die brook at 

 Reepham, for a moory meadow : it killed the rushes, and 

 covered the land with white clover. 



TOWN MANURE. 



Mr. Reeves, of Hcvcringland, for five or six years 

 kept one or two teams almost constantly at work bringing 

 manure from Norwich, at the distance of eight miles, lay- 

 ing eight loads per acre : the expense heavy, but he thought 

 it answered while the price was 4s. or 5s. for good stuff ; 

 but the price rose, and the manure became adulterated. 



Mr, Beck, of Castle Riseing, for seven years kept a 

 team constantly at work, bringing Lynn muck. 



SECT. IV. — PARING AND BURNING, 



Mr. Drake, of Billingford, broke up a rough coarse pas- 

 ture ; the soil poor, wet and hungry, on brick-earth, worth 

 scarcely any thing, from the kind and state of its herbage ; 

 by paring and burning, at the expense of 2I. 12s. 6d. per 

 acre ; he then ploughed it as shallow as possible, hardly 

 more *han aa inch and half deep, and dibbled in oats, 

 covering the seed with a very light harrow, bushed: the 

 crop, which I viewed, very great indeed ; it varied in parts 

 of the field, but the produce must be ciglit or nine quarters 

 per acre. He proposes to plough tiie furrow back in the 

 spring a Utile deeper, and dibble oats again ; then to work 

 it well for barley, laying down and claying on the layer. 

 I remonstrated against these crops, but he urged the ne- 

 cessity of the flag (as he calls it, though pared) rotting, 



and 



