23 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

are more the product of the clay, I must refer for the culture of them to that district.

Liquorice—was formerly much grown about Worksop, but is now entirely left off.

In the Trent Bank District.—The occupation is mixed of arable and grass, though more of the latter, especially contiguous to the river.

Lhe Arable is generally calculated for the turnip hus- bandry, and kept in those courses, producing good crops of barley, and remarkable fine ones of oats, eight, and some- times ten quarters an acre, particularly about Muskham and Balderton. They are so remarkably good, as to be distinguished by persons of knowledge from any other. Weight of the best, fourteen stone of fourteen pounds the sack; wheat is but eighteen. Oats are picked by hand by curious persons for seed. If the top one is a single oat, ihe rest on that stem will be so; the double ones are re- ected, It is a strong instance of the improvement of husbandry, that about thirty years ago, the sand lands in Gressthorp Cromwell and Muskham fields, were not worth more than two shillings and six-pence an acre, covered with wild sorrel, and lea lay for six or seven years.‘The alteration is to be ascribed to turnips and clover.

The course of crops is often, 1. turnips; 2. barley; 3. sceds for one, two, three, or four years; 4. break up for wheat, sometimes for oats; sometimes 4. wheat; 5. oats; but not a general pradtice.

Joseph Sikes, Esq. at Balderton, near Newark, ploughs a lea on a sandy soil, ahd sows, 1. with fine Poland oats, (from six to seven strikes per acre) 2. rouncival peas; 3. wheat; 4. turnips; 5. barley; 6. oats and seeds,(viz.) 101b. of Dutch clover, 8lb. of red clover, 6b. of trefoil, 6lb. of burnet grass, and 6 lb. of rib grass on every acre: the first spring after, stocks with-sheep; gives the land a good top- dressing with rotten dung the next spring, in the month of