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On  the  Farming  of  Sussex. 
sainfoin,  these  crops  being;  grown  on  soil  of  that  quality  not  to  be 
rated  at  much  more  than  half  these  returns  on  the  average,  with- 
out extraordinary  farming.  To  these  arguments  for  breaking  up 
down  may  be  added  the  further  inducements  in  the  commutation 
of  tithes  and  the  employment  of  labourers  ; and  last,  though  not 
the  least,  the  present  facility  for  obtaining  artificial  manures  at  a 
very  moderate  price. 
D ISTRICT  No.  2 
commences  at  New  Shoreham,  and  is  bounded  southward  by  the 
sea  and  northward  by  the  hills,  beginning  at  Shoreham  and  pass- 
ing in  a line  through  Sompting,  Patching,  Arundel,  Boxgrove, 
Chichester,  Westborn,  and  Futington,  &c.,  to  Hampshire. 
Soils. — This  district  may  be  called  the  garden  of  Sussex,  the 
soil  being  moslly  of  good  sound  land,  some  small  portion  being 
adhesive  on  clay  subsoil,  and  some  portion  on  the  higher  parts 
flinty,  and  not  so  deep,  but  of  similar  quality.  The  meadow  and 
pasture  land  is  proportionally  good  in  quality,  but  little  of  it  is 
used  for  the  purpose  of  sheep  feeding  on  the  stock  system,  being 
principally  applied  to  the  fattening  of  cattle  and  sheep. 
Systems. — These  are  various  and  applicable  to  the  soil,  the 
adhesive  land  being  alternately  sown  with  wheat  after  tares, 
fallow,  beans,  seeds,  and  a few  turnips.  Part  is  farmed  in  fourths, 
viz. : 
One-fourth  wheat. 
One-fourth  turnips. 
One-fourth  barley. 
One-eighth  oats. 
One-eighth  seed,  peas,  and  beans. 
Part  used  in  sixths,  viz. : 
One-sixth  turnips. 
One-sixth  barley. 
One-sixth  seeds  to  mow  and  feed. 
One-sixth  wheat. 
One-sixth  beans  or  peas. 
One-sixth  wheat. 
And  in  this  much  recommended  system  (on  good  land)  1 observed 
that  the  seeds  for  feeding  were  trefoil  and  white  clover  together, 
with  which  ewes  and  lambs  are  kept  and  fatted. 
In  some  parts  where  breeding  flocks  are  kept,  and  there  is  a 
portion  of  down,  or  the  greater  proportion  of  the  farm  is  of  thinner 
soil,  the  four-course  system  with  the  alternate  cropping  is 
adopted. 
Remarks.  — I visited  many  parishes  in  this  district  for  the  com- 
mutation of  tithes  that  were  estimated  at  40  bushels  of  wheat 
per  acre  and  the  other  crops  in  proportion.  A great  number  of 
sheep  and  lambs  are  fatted  on  the  arable  lands  on  turnips  and 
seeds,  &c.,  and  also  cattle  and  sheep  on  the  pasture  lands,  as  well 
as  in  stalls,  on  cake,  linseed,  &c.,  and  on  hay  and  roots,  princi- 
pally Swedish  turnips,  which  contain  so  much  nutritive  quality, 
that  on  some  farms  neither  corn  nor  oil-cake  is  given  to  sheep  on 
