LITTLE GADDESDEN. 237 



Akers-godning, saning med Rofvor, upkor- 

 ning, etc. 



The manuring, sowing with turnips, and ploughing of the 

 arable fields. 



In one place a farmer was engaged in ploughing up 

 his field, at kora up sin aker, which had before been 

 manured and grown with turnips, &c. I asked him how 

 he had treated this field ? He answered : Last year, in 

 May, chalk was carried into it, together with a large 

 quantity of dung, which is here mostly bare straw, and 

 which was all spread out and ploughed down. In June 

 the whole of this enclosure was sown with turnip seed. 

 In September, at Michaelmas, the sheep were turned on 

 to it, where they had since been, and baited, betat, till 

 [T. I. p. 238] this day. When it was sown with turnip- 

 seed, Rof-fro, the field was laid out in broadland, and 

 to-day, when it was being ploughed up anew, it was 

 similarly laid out in broadland, in which they intended to 

 sow barley this morning if the weather is fair. The 

 sheep by their droppings, together with part of the half- 

 rotted turnips, which have just been ploughed down, 

 helped considerably to make the soil fertile. They first 

 ploughed four to six furrows at both ends of the field, 

 and across, tvars for, the same, and afterwards 

 ploughed the whole field lengthwise, langs efter, so 

 that all the other furrows stood perpendicular to the 

 furrows at the ends, which the horses always trampled 

 down in the turning. I asked the reason why he did not 

 plough the furrows, which had been ploughed at the 

 ends, last, as we do? The farmer answered that if he 

 should have so dealt this morning with, som han i 

 morgon torde vela sa, only a part of the field, for 

 instance, as much as he will plough up to-day, then he 

 would have been obliged to plough the long-furrows, 



