turnips, rye as spring food for sheep, and stubble turnips, — 
but they would grow in perfection the white Belgian carrots, 
and this too on the Flemish plan, viz., sown with a crop of 
barley, provided liquid manure could be applied after the 
barley crop were reaped, — the carrot seed being sown about 
two weeks after the main crop of barley. Upon Lord 
Ducie's farm, at Whitfield, 26 tons per acre were grown 
without manure on a plain surface : so that whether sown as 
a main or along with a corn crop, this carrot deserves a more 
extended cultivation ; for not only does it yield a crop more 
valuable per ton than any other green crop, but it is raised 
at one-half the expense attending the growth of the turnip. 
It is said by the Yoxford farming club to be adapted to 
strong as well as mixed-soil lands. 
The Lias affords two qualities of land over the district 
described ; a strong calcareous soil by the stony lias, and a 
tenacious clay by the lias clay. The land formed by the 
stony lias is altogether arable, and produces heavy crops of 
grain, roots, and grasses. It is perhaps the best arable land 
in the whole district. Extending over so small an extent of 
country, we have not deemed it requisite to have the soil 
analysed ; the loose rock, by the decomposition of which it is 
formed, is burnt for lime in some places, and therefore the 
soil will contain a considerable portion of that earth. 
The Lias clay may be traced south across the Humber into 
Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Gloucester- 
shire, and Somersetshire, — the districts where the finest 
cheese is made, and great numbers of cattle and sheep are 
annually fattened. In some places it is a poor tenacious clay, 
and from the expense which attends the culture of this soil, 
the greatest portion of it is in pasture. The feeding pastures 
from Pocklington to Kilnwick Percy, those to the east of 
Market Weighton and around Hothara, are upon this bed of 
