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The remainder of what was park, being about 1,200 acres, is sort of new creation; Fery promisin 1g as t0 production; and,
from its variety, the Drisar worth notice. At the extreme North end'’of the park, about 200 acres are added to about 100 acres of the old meadow land; which form
SA ha 2 1„S, at is called, the FfEMISH FAkn; about 80 acres of which
are in arable, cropped exactly as the land is im Flanders; under a four-course shift, yielding, according to their Nvariable rule,
an alternate crop p, for man, and beast. Theé soil is good, but
very strong, and heavy; yet the ploughing is done with, ease with the Suffolk iron ploughs, workéed by twô oxen, or horses, andd ohe man, driving with reins. The working establishment of cattle upon this farm, is four horses, and six oxen. There are eighteen store oxen bes ides, and twelve are annually fed. There is alsocd flock:of 200 Coteswold ewes; whieh will, however, be increased next year to 300..
The buildings of this farm are comfortable, and on a compact scale; and there is one new cottage erected; and an old banquet- ing house converted into two others, in which HISs MaAalESTYI has put three of the most exemplary farm, or patk labourers, and their families. These cottages, are so truly what poor men oß this description ought to have, that I subjoin the plans and ele- vations of them(see Plate I.); particularly recommending the
aking of the cellar and pantry over it, in the same manner as they are erected on His MalEsr v's new farm-houses, and cottages; by going up three steps to the pantry, and down only six steps to the cellar, which entirely prevents its being wet, in those soils, where the springs lie near the surface.— The example of build- ing cottages, is so very laudable, that I hope men of fortune will
adopt, on many of their large farms, comfortable dwellings, si- kälar to these, not only for the advancement of their own in- terest, but the industrious man's comfort.
At the opposite end of the park, towards the great Western road, there is another farm formed; which, from a similitude to some of the poor light parts of Norfolk, is called the NoRyOLK FARM. There are about 200 acres of old meadow land, to
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