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forty years, as a regular system ; when he has deviated from that, 
it has been from necessity. The advantages of this are shown by 
one of my Norfolk friends in the following extract : — 
" It is absolutely necessary to give cart-horses green food during 
summer, and I am convinced that horses thrive much better in loose 
yards, with plenty of green food like lucern, than by being turned at 
random into a pasture, where they are frequently teased and worried by 
flies in hot weather — and drenched and starved, even in summer, by the 
cold rains we frequently have at that season. 
" Then, again, (which should be an important consideration to every 
high-land farmer,) by one mode you produce, during summer, a rich 
and excellent yard of dung, and by the other your manure is all wasted, 
or deposited in situations where it is not wanted." 
It is only necessary to add, that this conveys what seems to be the 
general opinion of the best farmers in the county at the present 
time. 
Mr. Blomfield's horse-cribs for cut-grass or cut-hay are wor- 
thy of notice. They are square, like most others, but have two 
high sides and two low ones : the latter, for the horses to reach 
over, whilst eating, opposite to each other; the former, to prevent 
their wasting what they should eat, by throwing it out. 
In Mr. Cambridge's yard, at South Runcton, I observed cast- 
iron posts used to support the front part of the open cattle-sheds. 
These posts cost 12s. each, and have the advantage of never de- 
caying ; if accidentally broken, they can be made as strong as 
before, by enclosing the broken parts in a circular brace of iron. 
Norfolk is celebrated for its large barns, which would be very 
desirable if the cost of them were not large also. Who would 
not, for instance, like to be able to drive ten or twelve loaded 
waggons under such a shelter in case of necessity ? 
THE COURSE OF CROPPING ON DIFFERENT SOILS, AND 
IMPLEMENTS USED. 
The four-course shift, viz. turnips, barley, seeds (or layer), and 
