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To be read after Line 18, Page§73-—Ploughing but once for fummer cora hag however been advifed by fome: this praCtice, it has-been obferved by. an intelligent farmer, though certainly not general in the county of Norfolk, is yet by no means His crop of barley was never more abundant than it was laft year ngle ploughing.«He has now béiween forty and fifty acres, which have the appearance of being very productive at the enfuing harveft, not one acre of which has becn ploughed twice. This practice certainly faves-expenfe, fives time, and is-very fimple. He doesnot, however, mean to recommend it merely becaufe he adopts it himfelf; every man muft be guided by circumftances: if his land is foul he muti clean it, and frequent ploughing is at once the cheapeft and moft effectual method he can purfue. If, however, the land be thoroughly cleaned by the ufual laborious preparation for turnips, it cannot be very foul for barley or oats, one of which is mofily the fucceeding crop; and he fufpects the neceflity of ‘frequent ploughings for fummer corn is generally attributable to the flovenly injudicious manner in which the fummer leys for turnips have been managed*.

Without venturing to recommend the practice, a Norfolk farmer ftates a fad: In the year 1800, he fowed between forty and fifty acres of barley upon turnip Jand ploughed only once, and thrafhed fomewhat more than eleven coombs:—three buthels per acre. This was in the year of fearcity. In i801, he grew only twenty- four acres of barley; about half of which was drilled, the land having been.pre- vioufly pulverized by repeated ploughings, the other half oxce ploughed only, after the turnips were off. Yherefult was much in favour of the broad-caft barley: but it fhould be ebferved, that‘the drill did not deliver the‘feed with fufficient regu- larity:—he grew eight coombs:—two buthels round. The year following he fowed forty-two acres of barley broad-catt: wanting to bring his land upon fmaller ridges, -he worked it about: the crop of barley was very great. He has already thrafhed about ten coombs per acre, and calculates that he has between two and three coombs per acre yet in the ftraw.

By his advice, his tenant has this year fown almoft-his whole barley crop with a fingle ploughing; his turnip-land being clean, with the exception of one piece, which he was advifed to plough feveral times.‘The weather having continued remarkably dry was the reafon of the recommendation. By ploughing land two or three times and harrowing it as often in dry weather, whatever moifture there is muft evaporate. Corn depofited in land in this.fituation comes up at two different times; the fuperficial corn, that which being lightly buried feels the influence of

* Monthly Magazine, Vol. X. p, 132,