380 
SOILS AND AGRICULTURE OF NORFOLK. 
The blowing sands of the Breckland are of quite a different 
type and origin There rye takes the place of wheat and 
lupin is grown instead of clover. If the season is wet the 
lupins are allowed to seed and then harvested, but in a dry 
summer they are ploughed in as a green manure. 
Experiments are being made with tobacco culture on the 
Breckland sands, and there is every hope that a tobacco 
industry may spring up and increase the value of the land 
which now is only worth its shooting rent. 
The glacial loam gives rise to some of the best land in 
East Anglia, and heavy crops are grown, wheat being especially 
important. The soil possesses an almost ideal texture, 
sufficiently porous to allow tillage operations to be per- 
formed at any part of the year, while at the same time enough 
moisture is retained for the use of the plants. 
The chemical analysis shows a rather low percentage of 
mineral foods, but this is compensated for by the use of 
manures. The soils are deficient in lime. 
Table XVII. 
Chemical analyses of of some Glacial Loam Soils: — 
Happisburgh. 
East Ruston. 
Strumpshaw. 
Ranworth. 
Catton. 
Antingham. 
Tunstead. 
Moisture 
Organic and loss on 
20 
1-68 
1-38 
1-4 
1-81 
1-78 
1-67 
ignition 
4-29 
4-11 
3-38 
333 
5-46 
4-00 
3-6 
Nitrogen 
•151 
■154 
•125 
•13 
•084 
•14 
077 
Potash . . 
•305 
•29 
•2716 
•223 
■226 
•24 
•242 
Phosphrs. pentoxide 
Calcium and magne- 
•09 
•074 
•089 
•073 
•088 
•09 
•091 
sium carbonates . . 
•13 
•11 
1-3 
1-46 
1-11 
•81 
•14 
Insoluble residue . . 
8775 
88-15 
89-45 
89-19 
86-25 
87-15 
79-78 
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