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EASTERN CHALK HILLS. AIL The TURNEP CULTURE is, in gene-

ral, well conducted: and, on the drier lands, is prevalent; being chiefly depended on, for sheep food, in the winter season.

For spring and summer food, TARES are a prevailing crop. On the Middle-Kent hills, I have seen them used, in different ways: namely, folded off, as they stood, in the GLocESTERSHIRE manner; mown, and given in racks, or cages, within a fold, on the land already cleared, as in the WILT- SHIRE practice; and, in one instance, I ob- served them pastured off, as clover, or other cultivated herbage; the flock going over them, a second time, when a fresh shoot was ready to receive them.

SAINFOIN is much more prevalent, on this, than on the other two divisions of the Chalk Hills of the southern counties. It is grown evel on the deeper clayey lands, with success. These lands having been chalked,and perhapscontain, zaturally,some

ortion of calcareous matter, the roots are led down, to the chalky substrata, and bring into action and use, what otherwise might, for ever, have lain dormant and unpro- fitable.

On the Hills of Surrey, its usual puRA~ tion is fifteen to twenty years.

Of CATTLE these hills are in a manner destitute; excepting a few cows, kept for a supply of milk and fresh butter.

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