RP SMTP, REPRE NS TEENIE CIT A- a a eit

404 AGRICULTURE.

.| On these hills; however, I have not met

1 with any instance of the over-sized farms,

|| which are observable, more or less, in every

.: other department of Chalk Hills, in the

ee kingdom.

ay BEASTS OF DRAFT. These are, in-

ony| variably, Horses of the black cart breed:

Hat four of them being the usual PLow TEAM? i

|!! even on the lighter loams, where two| ae are fully sufficient. On the deep, strong,| |«‘ cledgey” lands, on the Boxley hills, in (/ Hy Kent, I have seen six such horses working,| , i with‘great difficulty; owing to causes that will be explained.

The IMPLEMENTS in use, on these 3 hills,(excepting so far as the East Kent a| practice reaches) are the more ordinary and| slain ones of English husbandry. On the bills of Surrey and West Kent, there are no drag plows, as on the Western Hills; nor any shims, broadshares, stricking plows, or nidgets, as in Middle and East Kent.

REMARKS. This not only shows the tor- pid state in which English agriculture has nit remained, for a century or centuries past, my||(the situation, climature, and soil, with re- wi; spect to the hills of East and West Kent, moet: b similar, yet their present widely va- i 1}| rying practices have been established from:

Hf time immemorial); but evidences, in a strik- et ing manner, that the practice of East and an Middle Kent is either of foreign growth,