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roller is driven over the field to make it flat. He said 

 that the pease take no harm at all from it, but it is useful 

 to them. Part of these had been sown for eight weeks. 

 Maple Pea for about three ditto. 



[T. I. p. 247.J Vicioe, Tares, &c, sown for horses. 

 On several arable plots, aker stycken, they had some 

 Vicice or Vicker, Vetches, of different kinds. One of 

 these sorts was much praised. They were sown there 

 last autumn on broadland, and had the peculiarity that 

 they endured the winter cold, and were already nearly 

 three inches high. In the month of May he has them 

 cut, and gives the green stalks, halmen, to the horses, 

 for which they are very wholesome. This purges them 

 and makes them fat and in good condition. After they 

 have thus been cut in May, they stand and grow, either 

 to be again cut once more towards autumn, or to be left 

 for seed. 



One and another large arable plot was also sown with 

 clover, which now stood very beautiful and green. 



Gropar der de fordom tagit Krita. 



Pits, where they formerly have taken Chalk. 



We saw in several places in the fields, and also on the 

 pastures, large deep pits, where in former days they have 

 taken chalk, either for manuring the fields or for some- 

 thing else. In most of such old pits, not only was the 

 bottom overdrawn with thick grass sward, but in some 

 stood high and thick beeches. On all the hill slopes, 

 backar, round about this tract such old pits appear. 



Bokar skadeliga for haekar. 



Beeches injurious to hedges. 



Everywhere here in the hedges round about the arable 



fields there grew large and high beeches. Many inclosures 



were so surrounded by them, as if by a hedge. Mr. 



Williams said that these did the arable field little service, 



