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persons give tlieir cart-horses green food in the yards or boxes 
during summer, such as tares, lucern, trefoil, clover. They also 
carry into their }ards all the vegetable matter they can readily 
collect. When within a moderate distance of the coast, they 
spread sea-sand in their yards, loose boxes, sheds, stables, &c., to 
absorb the liquid manure. I would particularize Mr. Browne of 
Thrigby as doing this, though there are many others along the 
coast. Refuse-fish also is mixed with sea-sand or mould. Mr. 
J. H. Holley, of Aylsham Burgh Hall, uses very large quantities 
of sprats as manure for turnips. He mixes about one ton of them 
with eight or ten loads of mould, and finds that a ton and a half 
of these fish per acre will produce a good crop from very ordinary 
land; never having failed in any season. The mould for this 
mixture is obtained from the borders of the field where the turnips 
are grown, and the carting of it does not cost more than the carting 
of 20 tons of yard-manure. Brewers' grains are also in some in- 
stances used as manure ; they are supposed to pay best when 
mixed with farm-yard manure. Some of the best farmers are 
decidedly in favour of using dung fresh from the yard. Mr, 
Blomfield of Warham is one of these. Mr. John Baker, who for 
twenty-five years " farmed from 500 to 1000 acres in Norfolk," 
states, that " three essential points are to be observed : first, to 
apply the manure to the soil as soon as convenient after it is made 
(except in the depth of winter) ; secondly, to keep it as near the 
surface as possible ; and, thirdly, to mix it well with the soil." 
This view is supported by the practice of some of the best farmers 
in Norfolk. Liquid-manure tanks are becoming very common, 
although many prefer having the best of the liquid absorbed in 
mould, so as not to apply it in a liquid state ; but all agree in the 
necessity of preventing waste. Mr. Bowman, the steward of Mr. 
Marsham at Stratton Strawless, gave me a good practical reason 
why circular tanks are better than square ones. If a waggon 
heavily laden comes near a square tank, the pressure and crushing 
in" of the wheels may injure it, which " would not be the case if 
the liquid-manure tank was circular." Mr. Blakie says, it is ad- 
visable " to throw litter, scouringsof ditches, and such other refuse 
into the tanks, in sufficient quantity to absorb the urine and wash 
of the yards which run into them. Compost so collected is ad- 
mirable top-dressing for permanent grass-lands, or for young 
clover layers." When at Stratton Strawless (about Christmas, 
1843), I observed women employed in raking up leaves in the 
woods surrounding the mansion. Mr. Marsham turns these to 
account by mixing them with liquid manure. 
HORSES. 
Many first-rate animals, of different species, may be found in 
