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Therefore it would be a national benefit, could we obtain such information as requested above. According to our method of farming, clover comes in course to be sown once every four years, or by some five years, but if we were to sow it so often as that, we should never have any, we therefore substitute trefoil every other time, and sow clover only once in eight or ten years, and then a great part of it frequently fails,

lcan but admire the curious account your Correspondent, Mr. Peter Hall, gives of his sheep feeding off his turnips,| supposed he was the first person that ever attempted to feed turnips off upon strong wet land, as the stock are certain to do more harm to the land than the turnips were worth, such kind of land every farmer knows ought never to be trod upon if possible in the winter, but on the other hand, if he has any light dry land, he cannot pursue a better system, nor perhaps one so goad.

In your Number for March, you have a new Correspond- ent who has used my signature(A Norfolk Farmer,) he re- sides near Holkham, he says, I live in the opposite part of the county, not far from Suffolk, and shall still subscribe myself,

Your humble servant, May 19, 1803. A NORFOLK FARMER. eA: TON a ON AGRICULTURAL LECTURES. To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine. Sir, Live at a considerable distance from London, occupied I chiefly in practical hnsbandry, but 1 am likewise desirous of learning what is agitated in the theoretical departments of agriculture, and wish, by means of theory, to improve, and, as far as may be, perfect our practice.‘The Metropolis is the quarter from whence we have reason to expect speculative in- formation in its greatest purity: for your great city abounds in Agricultural Boards, Societies, and Exhibitions: and almost every institution, invention, and speculation, which promises utility to individuals or the community, meets ample encourage- ment.

I wish to ask you, or your readers, whether the very hand- some, and very promising proposals which] heard made by a very intelligent gentleman, at Lord Somerville’s Public Din- ner, Mr. Nicholls, of Castleman House, near Maidenhead, have been favourably received and carried into execution? I hope I shall receive an answer in the affirmative, for surely it wasa very liberal offer in Mr. Nicholls to undertake to give a course of Lectures om.Agriculture, and to give practical in- structions in the use.of various implements of husbandry, and this entirely gratuitongly.. I am, yours,

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