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fields. Hereabout lay a tremendous number of ordinary 

 flints of the size of the closed fist and smaller, so 

 that one could scarcely see any of the earth or soil for 

 them. 



They had in some places so got the upper hand, 

 that they were obliged to gather them, placka dem 

 tilhopa, and lay them in heaps. The carl who accom- 

 panied us assured us that the best and choicest wheat, 

 barley and oats, and even turnips, grow on such very 

 stony fields. These fields were now sown with wheat, 

 barley, oats and peas, or they were about to be sown 

 with turnip seed, not to mention, at fortiga, that a 

 part of them were now left fallow, til trades-land. 

 The wheat was here nearly everywhere sown in 

 "stitches" or" four thorough land." [T. I. p. 345. J The 

 breadth of such a stitche was just a Swedish ell, or 2 

 English feet. The breadth of the water furrows which 

 lay between the stitches, was, at the top 18 inches the depth 

 6 to 9 inches At some few places wheat was sown in 

 broadland, there, for instance, where the land seemed 

 to be very dry. Pease were here nearly everywhere 

 sown in the recently named stitches, with the exception 

 of some single place where they were sown in broad- 

 land, which last-named was everywhere used near Little 

 Gaddesden. 



Barley, oats, turnips, clover, St. Foin, vetches, &c, 

 were all sown in broad-land. The wheat stood beautiful, 

 barley and pease had already come up. 



Clover, Sain Foin, Ray-grass, sown as fodder for cattle. 



In some places the inclosures were sown with clover, 

 Trifoliumpurp. sativ, in other places with Sain Foin, or 

 also with Sain Foin and clover together. In other places with 

 clover and Ray-grass together, or also with Ray-grass only, 

 (med bara R.) " Ray-grass " or " Rey-grass " [rye-grass] is 



