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PICTURESQUE FARMING. 
vided by quickset fences, planted and disposed so as 
to have the best landscape effect. 
Mr. Knight grows carrots with great spirit, to the 
extent of 10 acres annually, and means to persevere in 
their growth. Wolverley has long been famous for 
growing carrots, and for saving carrot seed, but the 
growth was declining till he took it up and roused the 
attention of the farmers around him, who now, many 
of them, grow a few acres each. He generally buys 
carrot seed in London, though some of his neighbours 
grow it, one of them refused him carrot seed from jea¬ 
lousy ; he thinks the London seed equally good. 
The occupation 330 acres when brought regular, is 
intended to be 240 acres arable in the Norfolk system, 
or near it, and 90 acres meadow, pasture, and planta¬ 
tion ; the variations from 60 acres each, turnips, bar¬ 
ley, cloves, wheat; will be 10 acres of carrots, and 
about the same breadth of vetches constantly, and 
sometimes a piece of oats, which may be grown either 
in the second or fourth year of the course, and vetches 
in the third year instead of clover, also carrots either 
after clover or turnips.—See Courses of Crops. 
Mr. Knight has, at present, two sorts of sheep, Lei¬ 
cester and South Down ; but proposes to fix in the fine 
woolled sheep. His steward was gone, the last time of 
my being there, September 29« 1807, to endeavour to 
procure a lot of the true Ross breed (this breed is sup¬ 
posed to be nearly extinct) ; he means to keep South 
Down, Ryeland, Merino, and Crosses,and has now a Me¬ 
rino ram bought from Lord Somerville, of very fine 
wool, but uncouth in the head and neck ; but this ram 
has, nevertheless, got some good looking stock from 
South Down ewes. He has a South Down ram bought 
from the Duke of Bedford , at 40 guineas, and another 
South 
