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Farming of Cambridgeshire. 
some days. They are fed with turnips, mangold, cake, and 
corn. 
A neighbour of mine, and one of our best farmers, fed last 
year, in consequence of the low price of wheat, his beasts with 
boiled wheat : the beasts did remarkably well, and became excel- 
lent meat. 
A landed proprietor, Mr. Cotton, of Hildersham, who has been 
growing the Gold of Pleasure, had the oil extracted at the mill, 
and cakes for feeding made with the refuse. He has fed his 
beasts with it this winter ; they have done well with it, he informs 
me, and he has used the oil for his own domestic purposes : it 
burns well, gives a good light, and has no offensive smell. I hope 
he will furnish our Society with a full account of the results. 
The Second District 
Is the heavy land district on the eastern side of the county, 
adjoining the counties of Essex and Suffolk, and running to 
Chevely near Newmarket, consisting of part only of the parishes 
of Balsham, Wratting, Weston, Carlton, Brinkly, Westly, Dul- 
lingham, and Stetcliworth ; these parishes about the village and 
on the eastern side are heavy land : the boundary of these pa- 
rishes is long and narrow, running down to the Newmarket 
road, so that nearly all the land lying on the western side of the 
village is light land ; all the villages adjoining the counties of 
Essex and Suffolk are heavy lands, requiring hollow-draining. 
I shall now proceed to treat of this district as distinct from the 
heavy land district on the western side of the county, as it is 
in my opinion much better managed, particularly as relates to 
draining. It is, with very few exceptions, farmed on the four- 
course system ; it is all well hollow-drained, and generally speak- 
ing well farmed. The parishes of Horseheath, Castle Camps, 
and Sheedy Camps have a fair portion of good grass-land. 
First Year — Fallow. 
The lands of this district, being heavy and requiring draining, 
are generally ploughed into stetches containing eight furrows, 
so that in drilling the horses walk in the furrows; thus are 
avoided the treading and poaching so injurious to heavy land, 
which is the great fault in the management of the western dis- 
trict, for there they have the lands all on high backs, and from 
one to two rods wide. The plan pursued by the best farmers of 
this district is, after wheat or oats, the land coming for fallow, the 
old furrows are opened with a pair of horses ; then, with three 
horses abreast, the ploughman turns a furrow on to the edge of each 
of the furrow-slices thrown out of the old furrows, thus leaving in 
the middle of each land a baulk, containing two furrows, which 
