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the manure applied. The red clover would only come once in 
10 years ; a sufficient interval to insure a good crop of it ; whereas, 
it generally fails, if repeated every four years. 
With high land, called light, yet not containing sufficient sand 
or chalk to render it " kind for turnips," Mr. Blomfield, of 
Warham, states he would adopt the following course : — 
1, turnips; 2, barley; 3, grass-seeds ; 4, 
About Michaelmas he would partly plough the land, that is, 
plough it in the manner called " risbalking," by which 4 inches 
are taken out and laid on 12 ; so that one-fourth only of the land 
is actually ploughed ; but that fourth destroys the herbage on 
another fourth ; and, notwithstanding this, it so improves the re- 
maining half, as to make it, as a means of supporting stock, 
nearly equal to what the whole would have been. About Mid- 
summer he would cross-plough it, as opportunity might offer; and, 
near the time of harvest, manure and plough it. 
5, wheat ; 6, grass ; 7, part oats and part peas. 
Mr. Neave, of Downham Grove, near Wymondham, (whose 
land is too strong for turnips, and, on that account, not desirable 
that he should have them oftener than is really necessary,) would 
not sow them so frequently, but would prefer the course fol- 
lowing ; — 
1, turnips; 2, barley; 3, layer; 4, layer; 5, wheat; 6, beans; 
7, wheat. 
Near Lynn I observed, on one farm, this course : — 
1, Rape, sown in June and eaten off by sheep. 
2, Wheat, drilled with 7 pecks of seed. 
3, Beans, ploughing once for them, and drilling or dibbling 
2 bushels per acre. 
4, Wheat, ploughing the land only once and drilling the seed. 
5, Oats, ditto, drilling 4 bushels per acre. 
This farm was remarkably clean, although other land near it 
was as much the contrary : the difference, probably, being caused 
by the occupier of one commencing operations only when the soil 
seemed in a fovourahle state, the other, when it suited his conveni- 
ence, whatever the state of the soil might be. 
Mr. Hudson at Seech, near Lynn (where the land is his own, 
and cultivated on his own account, in conjunction with the farms 
at Castle Acre), the soil being a deep silt, a deposit from the sea, 
has sowed wheat and beans alternately for the last 16 years, 
without fallow, and without taking any other crop than the two 
named. As he undoubtedly obtains a good crop every year, I 
think myself justified in giving some of the details. It seems 
necessary, in tlic first place, to state that, by having large high 
land farms, he can spare a sufficient number of horses from them 
to get through any work on the other, while the season is par- 
