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banks, backama, where they had taken chalk the whole 

 quarry, brott, seems to consist of such hard chalk 

 lumps, kritstycken, but not a single flint-bit among 

 them, except at one single place. Wheat is said to grow 

 very well in this earth, barley tolerably, black oats some- 

 what better. In wetter places beans thrive very well, 

 but pease are said not to flourish. 



Par i fallor pa nyss sadda Korn-akra. 



Sheep in folds on newly-sown Barley-fields. 



They were now busily engaged here in sowing Barley, 

 Korn, which was done in broadland, and the seed was 

 harrowed down directly after the sowing. The plough 

 which was here everywhere used was only and exclusively 

 the so-called Foot-plough* Many may think, because 

 the two-wheel single Hertfordshire plough f has such great 

 advantages over other ploughs, that they also would use 

 it, because it is generally and almost exclusively used 

 in Hertfordshire, which lies [T. I. p. 262] only 3 or 4 

 miles from here. But they said that their foot-plough is 

 better, because the before-named Hertfordshire plough 

 with its wheel could not advance in this soil, which at 

 certain times of year is very soft and miry, blot ocb. 

 sank, but the wheel would sink deep into it, and become 

 stuck fast, full-klibbade. On these newly-sown barley- 

 fields stood several folds in which they keep the sheep at 

 night, which by their droppings manure the field con- 



* Foot-plough. A few years ago these had almost disappeared, but 

 within the last 7 or 8 years they have come into use again on the Gaull, as at 

 Slapton, where they are used in wet weather. They are now made by the 

 blacksmith at Eaton Bray, 1886. The iron plough is used m dry weather, 

 1886. fj. L.] 



f The Hertfordshire plough has apparently disappeared. I have not 

 succeeded in seeing one, though I have been sent on more than one wild 

 goose chase to remote farms to see one, 1886. [J. L.] 



