366 



Farming of Lincolnshire. 



observable on poor land, is in this district made to exhibit the 

 peculiarity of costly manuring and indefatigable weeding. A 

 hundred sacks (16 stones each) per acre is a common amount of 

 produce^ and often 120 or 130 sacks per acre. After the manured 

 potatoes have been grown the land will bring 5 quarters per acre 

 of wheat, but the average is of course much less. The average 

 produce and breadth of each kind of crop on the warp land is as 

 follows : — 





Acres. 



Crop. 



Acres. 



Yield per Acre. 



First Class quality . 



2000 



Potatoes 

 Wheat . . 



1000 

 1000 



100 sacks, or 10 tons. 

 36 bushels. 



Second Class quality 



8000 



Potatoes . 

 Wheat . . 

 Beans 



Oats . . . 

 Onions . 

 Flax- . . 



Clover, Seeds, 1 

 &c. / 



2666 

 2666 

 1000 



300 

 68 



300 



1000 



80 sacks, or 8 tong. 

 30 bushels. 

 32 bushels. 

 48 bushels. 

 10 tons. 



Oj ton (70 stones have 



been grown). 



Third Class quality . 



3563 



Potatoes . 

 Wheat . . 

 Oats . . . 

 Clover andl 

 Seeds. j 

 Fallows . 



300 

 890 

 893 



890 



590 



60 sacks, or 6 tons. 

 24 bushels. 

 40 bushels. 



Of the total quantity of warp land, viz., 14,688 acres, only 1125 

 acres are under grass. The rental per acre is from SO^. to 6O5., 

 but is sometimes as high as 8O5. or even IOO5. 



The high grounds, extending through Haxey, Epworth, Belton^ 

 and Crowle, are adjacent to the above alluvial district, and com- 

 prise two varieties of soil. The clay loam, about 10,116 acres, has 

 1850 acres of grass; the usual course of cropping on the arable 

 land is 1. fallow; 2. wheat or oats; 3. clover, seeds, or beans; 

 4. wheat or oats. The extent and produce of each kind of 

 cropping is as follows : — 



* The following, we believe, is the common method of culture for flax. The land, 

 usually wheat stubble, is cleaned in the general fashion ; the seed is sown in May, the 

 crop carefully weeded, and when the plant is gone out of flower, about a week after 

 Midsummer, it is pulled and bound in sheaves or beats ; then carted away to the pits 

 or dykes, covered with sods, and left to steep in the water from ten days to three weeks 

 according to the weather. After being taken out of the pits it is spread on grass land 

 for about three weeks, then again bound up in sheaves, taken home, and stacked for 

 dressing. The expenses, including "hackling," are estimated at about 13^. ; the pro- 

 duce, 35 stones at 9s., 15 guineas. 



