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heat, but sometimes barley, which gives a finer yield than 
,hen taken in the usual order after turnips. 
The practice of autumn-tilling stubbles by the grubber, so as Autumn- 
I cleanse the fallow land before Christmas, prevails upon some fQ^?^"^^*'''^ 
)ils; but the light lands of thin weak staple upon a porous subsoil 
*-e not commonly so treated ; the hand-fork is used to clean 
it tufts of couch, and one winter ploughing, followed in spring 
\- pulverising by the tines of the cultivator, prepares a fine 
•ed-bed, from which the manure and condition have not been 
orked out by rains, and in which the moisture, so invaluable 
that dry climate, is retained. 
Lincolnshire has obtained a proud distinction above all other Lincolnshire. 
)unties for the rapidity and completeness of the improvements 
hich transformed its barren heaths and flinty wolds into great 
stricts of highly-farmed arable ; for the excellence of farm- 
anagement, extending in almost unbroken succession for forty 
fifty miles together ; for its vast reclamations of salt-marshes, 
embankment, from the sea ; for the unrivalled richness of its 
16 alluvial grazing-lands ; and for its system of tenant-right, 
liich grew up simultaneously with the early amelioration of 
> surface. This latter, however, the county ought to share 
ith Nottinghamshire, which possesses a sin^ilar system of com- 
nsation for occupiers' improvements. Lincolnshire is also 
lebrated, in common with Cambridgeshire and some neigh- 
)uring counties, for its various works of arterial and steam- 
)wer drainage, and the conversion of its region of peat and 
ay fens into some of the most productive corn-lands in the 
ngdom. It has, in common with Yorkshire, the peculiar 
actice of " warping," or covering poor low-lying peats and 
nds with a thick stratum of unctuous loam, deposited as a 
jdiment from the muddy waters of the Trent and Ouse by 
tificially flooding the lands for the purpose ; and it has recently 
on a name, in favourable comparison with other counties, for 
e extensive adoption of good drainage and steam-cultivation 
ion its heavy clays. Lincolnshire is also remarkable for the 
stribution of its holdings ; large farms prevailing on the hills, 
hile in other parts, more particularly in the south-eastern fen 
id marsh flat, and in a still more marked degree in the extreme 
irth-west, known as the " Isle of Axholme," there are among 
edium-sized occupations very numerous small farms often little 
rger than allotments. 
Two principal watersheds divide the county, namely, the 
jlite hills, running through the entire length from north to 
)Uth, known southward of Lincoln as the " Heath," and north- 
ard of the city as the " Clilf ;" and the loftier chalk range, 
