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standing on the land than proves necessary for collecting 

 its seed for next year, for this is a planta annua, which 

 must be sown every year, and that in early spring so that 

 it can by this time, August, be taken up as food for cattle. 

 At this time of the year, tid, they here keep their horses at 

 home in the stable for the reason that out in the inclosures 

 they are so much troubled with flies and other insects. 



Rofvor, turnips. They also sow turnips here as at 

 other places in England. The season when they com- 

 monly sow them is just about this time. I was to-day 

 in a large inclosure in the afternoon, which in the 

 morning had been sown with turnip seed. The whole 

 inclosure was laid out as turnip land. The land lies 

 fallow all the summer before this time. At the beginning 

 of July they carry [T. II. p. 93] the manure out on to 

 this land (see T. I. p. 483 orig.) which manure is mostly 

 straw-Utter, halmbyssie, such as is collected in the 

 farm-yard, fa - garden, and has there lain under 

 the cattle, and has become mixed in with their dung. 

 After this has been carried on to the fields and laid 

 there by the load, lasstals, it is spread out as soon as 

 possible, and is ploughed down. After that the field 

 is harrowed and rolled so that it becomes quite fine. 

 The principal reason why they sow such a quantity of 

 turnips here is that they feed and fatten both sheep 

 and oxen with them in the winter. 



Akerbruket. The Agriculture. The places which 

 they make up their minds to sow with wheat in autumn 

 are such as are either now lying fallow, or also where 

 beans are now growing, which they plough up in the 

 autumn and sow with wheat. 



The 2nd August, 1748. 



Kallor mycket rara har pa orten. Springs very 

 rare in this district. I have often before made the remark 



