406 AGRICULTURE.

other remains to be noticed; and which has probably introduced it, upon the hill lands of West Kent and Surrey. It is peculiarly adapted to the strong flinty soils, which prevail on the tops of these hills, from east to west: and, most especially, where such soils hang on steep surfaces.(See page 392-) In soils of such a nature, a winged, or a fin share could not work, with propriety, in any state; but, more particularly, when stif= fened by a dry season. Its singular strength, too. is well adapted to this stubborn soil.

The OUTLINE of MANAGEMENT, over the whole of this Division of Chalk Hills, is that of keeping the lands(the small portion of grass Jands excepted) in grain crops and sheep food, alternately. Corn ard sheep being the principal opjects.

The MARKETABLE crops are wheat, bar- ley, oats, some peas, and, in the eastern yarts of Kent, beans,—even on the higher, thinner lands!

The consuMPTIONAL PRODUCTS are lur- neps, tares, ley herbage, with the perennial grass, which the small portions of meadow, pasture, and sheep down afford.

The couRSE OF PRACTICE is unfixed: on the lighter lands, turneps, or tares, are the cleansing crop: on the stiffer, tares, or sum- mer fallow, for wheat, isin use: the clover crop, or other ley herbage, following either wheat or barley, according to the state of