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Michaelmas 1887, at a rent of 593/. 10s., and a tithe-rent charge 
of 120/. ; the rates, also paid by the tenant, average about 50/. 
yearly ; and the whole amount to 46s. per acre. 
The lease contains no restrictive clauses as to the mode of 
cropping or the selling of produce ; and availing himself of the 
freedom conferred by the latter, the tenant annually markets 
clover hay. 
Situation, Buildings, &,'c. — The farm is situated in the village 
of Burgh, about two miles from Aylsham. The river Bure, 
navigable from Yarmouth, bounds the meadows, on which is a 
wharf, where manures, cakes, 6cc., are delivered by barge at a 
charge much less than if they were brought by rail ; moreover, the 
advantages arising from this in the saving of horse and manual 
labour are very considerable. The farm is also intersected by 
main roads, while two railway stations are within two miles, 
and it may fairly be described as well watered, roaded, and 
railed. 
The dwelling-house is good and commodious, nicely placed 
in well-kept grounds, in which some good specimens of choice 
coniferae are growing profusely. The kitchen-garden adjoining 
is likewise in perfect order. In the drawing-room we were 
shown a piano purchased with prize money awarded to Mr. 
Learner four times in succession for the best crop of roots 
grown from seed supplied by a Norwich firm of seed merchants, 
and open for competition to the whole of their customers. 
There are two sets of farm-buildings, the principal one near 
the dwelling-house and partly rebuilt, and added to at the com- 
mencement of the tenancy, the new buildings being seventeen 
large boxes, with the feeding passage in front, and a root house 
at the end. Branching off at right angles are three yards with 
shelter sheds, into which the boxes open ; one doorway sufficing 
for two boxes, but not large enough to admit a cart. The 
manure, when the boxes are emptied, must necessarily be twice 
moved to deposit it in the carts. 
The carthorse-stable and another yard form a separate block 
at a short distance from the above, and near to is a horse-gear, 
giving power for chaff-cutting, &c. 
The secondary set of buildings, with yards and sheds for 
cattle, stable for horses, and a dwelling-house, are situated at 
the east end of the farm. 
Soil. — Arthur Young, writing in 1804, says: " Ashby and 
Burgh were named to me as having extraordinary land ; at the 
latter I found it excellent." The latter statement the Judges 
endorse. 
The arable land is a fertile free working loam ; in some places 
where the gravel subsoil is near, during protracted droughts, as 
