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On the Farming of Essex. 
coming exceedingly prevalent, as the land is not so likely to re- 
unite should excessive rain succeed, nor so liable to be affected by 
drought should dry seasons follow. A saving is also effected in 
expense and seed ; the former mode requiring four bushels per 
acre, but the drill requiring only three bushels per acre. The 
produce may be estimated from four to six quarters per acre, and 
five quarters may be taken as the full average crop of the district. 
The difference in expense by the two modes would stand as fol- 
lows : — 
First Mode. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
First year making the fallow, three whole tilths, 
and one strike, at 8^. . 
1 
8 
0 
Two harrowings ..... 
0 
1 
4 
Seed tilth 
0 
8 
0 
Harrowing . . ... 
0 
1 
4 
Seed, four bushels ..... 
0 
16 
0 
Sowing ...... 
0 
0 
4 
£2 
15 
0 
Second Mode, 
By the scarifier, as follows 
First year fallow 
Scarifying 
Harrowing 
Seed, three bushels 
Drilling 
1 9 4 
0 2 9 
0 0 8 
0 12 0 
0 2 6 
£2 7 3 
Gain by latter process, Is. 6d. per acre. 
The barley is seldom interfered with until the following har- 
vest, the clean state of the land not requiring the hoe, and the 
yellow charlock usually appearing in such quantities as to defy it ; 
but by a perseverance for a succession of years in hand- weeding 
it out of the crop, it may be entirely eradicated, and has upon 
some farms belonging to and occupied by the owners been thus 
got rid of, but as leases are not sufficiently extended so as to 
repay the tenant his expense in effecting so desirable an object, it 
is seldom attempted. 
In the third year the same routine of fallowing again takes 
place, and the wheat is ploughed in beneath (he furrow, and left 
without harrowing, an operation effected at so little expense as to 
put those lands beyond comparison in that respect with any 
others in the kingdom, as the whole operation of ploughing and 
putting in the seed does not exceed 8s. dd. per acre ; the quantity 
of seed mostly sown is 2^ bushels per statute acre. 
