On the Farming of Suffolk, 



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per acre, distance of rows from 4 J to 8 inches ; rape-cake is 

 sometimes drilled with barley, or sown broadcast before the last 

 ploughing-. On one farm 2 bushels of seed, and sometimes 

 less, have been drilled at 4J inches, generally producing a better 

 crop than the larger quantity. It is generally found that the 

 early-sown barley produces the best crop, and hence the advan- 

 tage of clearing off the turnip-crop as early as possible. 



Wheat has been substituted for barley of late years on some 

 farms after beet and carrots, and after turnips that have been fed off 

 early. Very few good crops are secured by this method after tur- 

 nips ; I have seen better crops after carrots carted off the land than 

 where the turnips have been folded. On the very light soils rye 

 is sometimes grown instead of barley, par- a h 



ticularly where the turnips have been fed 

 early. Some idiimers prefer rye after tur- 

 nips. The manner of harvesting barley 

 differs from that of the heavy-land dis- 

 tricts. When fit for carting, the swaths are 

 gathered into shocks with a shack-fork, 

 (figs, a and h) . In gathering corn with a 

 shack-fork three swaths are laid in one row. 

 The workman proceeds by pushing the 

 corn with his fork till he has it full ; he 

 now lays this on the middle swath. At the 

 end of the field he turns back and gathers 

 the swath on the other side of the shock, the method of doing 

 this will be better shown by the following diagram. 



The swaths a a a a are gathered and a h a a ha 

 laid on those marked h h ; the intervals 

 c c c c are also gathered, and in this manner 

 the shocks d, as they are here called^ are 

 formed ready for pitching on the waggons. 

 But previous to this the spaces between 

 the shocks are raked with a horse-rake. 



ord Year, Seeds. — The small seeds are 

 by some sown at the same time as the barley ; 

 by others after the barley appears above 

 ground. There is more difficulty of securing a plant bv the 

 latter method ; but there is no fear of spoiling the barlev by the 

 seeds getting too forward. The manner of sowing is either with 

 a wide broadcast drill or with the hand ; the quantity sown about 

 1 peck of red clover, 1 1 trefoil, f peck of white clover, and 3 to 

 4 bushels of sainfoin respectively. Rye-grass is frequently sown 

 mixed with clover and trefoil. 



Mr. R. Raynbirdj of Hengrave, sows seeds (clover, sainfoin, 

 and rye-grass) in the following manner. Instead of the usual 



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