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which are added about 1,000 acres of what was lately park; 500 of which, are allotted for sheep walks; 100 for leasows; and the other 400 are in arable, managed in a five-course shift, of eighty

acres in a class; and though the crops do not follow alternately,

For remarks,&c.

as they do upon the FrEMISH FaRM, the spirit of reciprocal bene- fit, is nevertheless, nearly adhered to, viz.

Ist year, wheat. 2d

One half, green vetches for feeding off, one quarter potatoes or cabbage, and one quarter in buck-wheat. 3d—— Purnips.. 4th—— Barley, with seeds. Sth—— Clover. So that every year there will be 80 acres of wheat; 40 of green vetches, fed off; 20 acres potatoes, or cabbage; 20 acres buck- wheat; 80 acres of turnips; 80 acres of barley; and 80 acres of clover.*

The greatest part of the ploughed ground, was dear in its former state at 5s. an acre; a large proportion of it being similar to its

neighbour, Bagshot-heatli; yet, at this time, some of it has a crop of turnips, not to be exceeded in value in the coun ty. In short, the whole is in a prosperous, and promising state, and exhibits a lively Picture of industry, and economic labour; as the greatest part of the ploughing is done with Norfolk ploughs, by Norfolk boys, from fourteen to eighteen years of age, with two horses, which they drive at the same time they manage the plough. A draft of which I subjoin, as well as of the Suffolk iron plough, worked

either with two horses, or oxen, on the FEMISH FARM(see Plate II.)— EioHr HuUNDRED Wiltshire wethers are kept as a folding flock on the NokroLk Fakn, with the assistance of which, the

* This course of cropping might be followed with great success in PARkKs,— where the turf is worn out, and become unproductive. A proportionate quantity might be annually broke up, and a like quantity annually laid

down, to continue in grass, after the first five years; which, exclusive of the

corn that would arise, would insure a verdant, and productive surface, in

those places, where the turf is at present, unpleasant tothe eye, and batren

of produce,