98 
Report on tlie Farming of the 
" In most of the open-field townships on the wolds two crops and a 
bare fallow liave been from time immemorial the constant course ; the 
tillage field was divided into 6, 9, or 12 falls or fields, so that there 
might be at least one of the divisions under each kind of grain, and 
fallow every year. The course pursued was generally as follows : — ■ 
" 1. Fallow. 4. Fallow. 
2. Wheat. 5. Barley, 
3. Oats. 6. Peas or beans. 
"After enclosures had taken place upon the wolds, or upon the new 
letting of farms, various rotations were adopted ; but the general system 
is to preclude the tenant from sowing two crops of white corn in suc- 
cession. The following is as frequent, and probably as good, as most in - 
use : — 
" 1. Turnips. 5. Turnips. 
2. Barley. 6. Barley. 
3. Red clover or tares. 7. Grass. 
4. Wheat. 8. Grass. 
" In Holderness, on the clay and strong loamy lands, two crops and a 
bare fallow form the usual course; wheat on tlie fallow, and beans 
(sometimes oats) after the wheat; but on the fine gravelly and loamy 
turnip soil, extending through the middle of Holderness, by Catfoss, 
Rise, Skirlaugh, Coniston, and Bilton, the course is generally, 
" 1. Turnips. 4. Wheat. 
2. Barley. 5. Beans or peas. 
3. Clover. 
*' In Howdenshire, along the course of the Ouse, is a tract of exceed- 
ingly rich warp land : it extends about 2 miles in breadth, and is usually 
cultivated with wheat, oats, beans, potatoes, and fallow, but flax and 
rape-seed occasionally intervene." 
Mr. Strickland then treats in detail of the crops commonly 
cultivated, of which we must notice the principal, with a view to 
show the produce at that time usually obtained, 
" Wheat, — From 2.^ to 3 bushels per acre are sown broadcast, and 
about li- bushel when drilled. Produce from 12 to 24 bushels per acre 
on the wolds ; but on the good wheat-land in the other parts of the 
Riding, from 20 to 40 bushels per acre. 
'■'^ Barley. — Quantity of seed from 2 to 2^ bushels per acre. Pro- 
duce from 3 to 5 quarters per acre ; after a good crop of turnips, how- 
ever, a greater quantity is occasionally obtained. 
" Oats. — Quantity of seed from 4 to 5 bushels of potato-oats per 
acre; of the Friezeland and Tartarian, about 6; and of the Poland, 
8 bushels per acre. But it is a general rule that the richer the land the 
more seed should be sown upon it, or the produce will be strong straw 
with very little grain, Produce on the warp land of Sunk Island, about 
8 quarters per acre ; in the rest of Holderness, in Howdenshire, and in 
the lowland j)arts of the Riding, about 6 quarters ; and on the wolds 
(excepting on land that has recently been sheep-walk), less than 
4 quarters. 
