44. AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

them, got casually by a bad tup, and which had always been with the others, were worth no more than one guinea,

In the Vale of Belvoir distrié#—The country is part open, and part inclosed; as in Appendix, No. VII. In the open fields, the course of husbandry is generally, 1. wheat orbarley; 2. beans; 3. fallow. In Elston* are four fields, as {. wheat; 1. barley; 1. bean; 1. fallow. In the inclo- sures there is almost universally a mixture of arable and pasture, and a little dairying.

Clean fallows are generally made in rotation, as in the open fields. Sometimes red clover is sown with barley, and broken up instead of a fallow. Sometimes white clover, Tye-grass, and rib-grass, or narrow leaved plantain, is sowed with the barley, and let lie: three years.

Mr. Pocklington, of Kinnoulton, an active and spirited farmer, has had sixteen crops running,(including clover) without a fallow. He is careful always to hoe out weeds early in spring, as soon as they appear. At harvest he mows his stubbles directly; sets his crop in lines, and, if possible, ploughs the intervals before it is carried. He then ploughs it in to make the weeds vegetate; and as soon as that happens, if dry weather, ploughs again as soon as possible. He lets no wet stand on any account; drawing it off with the spade, or otherwise. He allows, that ig wet lands fallows may be required oftener. The land in general is too strong for turnips.. Rape is sometimes got instead of them, but rarely.

In the Nottinghamshire Woulds—The arable is occupied in the common course of two crops and a fallow. Clipston has four fields; the inclosed part is chiefly poor land; a little is ploughed, vety few turnips, some clover. The Woulds, properly called, or wastes, in the open parishes, are stinted pasture for young beasts and horses. Few sheep.:

® Elston is since inclosed,