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February, and stocks it with sheep and feeding heifers, for four or five succeeding years, and then breaks it up for the same rotation of crops. He prefers sowing seeds with oats to sowing them with barley, because the oats(Poland ones) being shorn(7. e. reaped) in this country, when there are fine crops of them, the seeds are not so apt to be smothered and damaged.

Mr. Sikes always found benefit to his wheat from mow- ing a second crop of clover, instead of eating it.

N.B. This is the Hertfordshire method.

Winter Tares are lately grown by some few persons, to cut for green fodder. Vide Ante Forest District.

Grass Lands are employed more for feeding than the dairy, except along the Soar, where, and in the towns an the south bank of the Trent, as far as Nottingham, viz. Thrumpton, Barton, Clifton, and Wilford, as well as at Attenborough, and Chilwell, on the opposite side of the river, are large dairies, milking from twenty to twenty-five cows, chiefly employed in making of cheese. The island between the towns of Averham, Kelham; Muskham, and Newark, is remarkably fine feeding land. Under the gravel here is found aclay, which is burnt into bricks; probably the same would be found in other places in this level. The beasts fed, are generally of the short-horned Lincolnshire and Holderness kind.;

The Tongue of Land east of Trent, running into Lin- colnshire, 1s of a sandy soil, in some parts rather better, but in general very poor. A great part of it is taken up by low moors, much flooded by rains. George Neville, Esq. of Thorney, has reclaimed a considerable part from the moor, and brought it into high cultivation; and has also, within twenty-five years, raised upwards of two hundred acres of very flourishing plantations. Some of the land, particularly where there is a thriving young plan- tation of seventy-five acres, laid out in quarters with ri- dings, appeared to me the worst I had ever seen, bearing