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Agriculture of Norfolk. 
injury to the clover. Some dibble the land for tares, where the 
layer is "patchy." The seed is covered by "bush-harrowing;" 
the land manured before the tares come up, and rolled early in 
the spring. One person says, " I have grown tares in various 
ways, and at last decided on sowing them only upon a layer. If I 
sow them on a stubble, I always lose my turnips after them. I 
put them on my layer, because I cannot always get clover to rise 
sufficiently to mow, on my dry land. Tares help the clover, and 
both together come early and make a large crop." Another says, 
" You have an abundant crop of green food, much better for stock 
than tares alone, or tares with a mixture of wheat, oats, or rye, as 
generally sown ; which horses will not eat after a short time ; and, 
even if you put them through a cutting-machine, they will still 
pick out the tares. I frequently sow from ID to 15 acres of tares 
in a weak new layer for folding off with my ewes and lambs. If 
eaten before the tares flower, the crop is not injurious to the 
wheat which follows." The former gentleman states, " I never 
found the wheat suffer afterwards, if the tares were not allowed to 
ripen the seed, or if sown with (red) clover. Once I sowed them 
with white clover and trefoil, and I hurt the wheat crop ; but it 
was, as I thought, because nothing rose to cover the ground after 
the first mowing, so as to make a flag for the wheat." In order 
that this may be more readily understood by persons of other 
counties, I think it right to state, that red clover is not grown 
oftener than once in eight years in Norfolk, and only once in 
twelve by some. In short, they all follow the plan of varying 
their grass-seeds each course ; and they all agree, that one of the 
best securities for a good crop of w heat is to plough in a " good 
flag." 
Cabbages. 
I observed several small plots of cabbages in different parts, 
but select Mr. James Everitt's description of his manner of 
growing them at North Creake, not only because they were at 
least as good as any others (if not better), but because I think his 
statements respecting them calculated. to be useful. He says: — 
" I never, in any one year, have more than 3 acres, as I use them 
only in my lamb-yard during the lambing season ; nor, on my light land, 
should I attempt to extend my quantity ; being satisfied they are im- 
mense exhausters of the soil, and require a larger proportion of manure 
than any other crop." 
Mr. Everitt adds, he has tried two methods — transplanting, and 
sowing the seed where he intends the crop to grow. I will give 
their description, as nearly as I can, in his own words: — 
"In the former, I sow the seed in April, upon a well-manured seed- 
bed, at the rate of 1 lb. of seed for an acre. I ridge the land about mid- 
