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I very much doubt if the preference assigned to Staddles, (No 55, p- 98,) be-wellfounded. In this uncertain climate ä barn is, perhaps, the only effectual Security for wheat, the mozt valuable production of the field; and I flatter myself the atten- tion of your readers will not be uselessly applied by adverting to the iugenious plan which is the Subject of the present com munication.;

Lynn, I am, Sir, yours,&c. March, 8, 1804. FG TRM EL EETEE TT ERSIE AR

ON COMMONS IN NORFOLK, ROTATION OF CROPS; NEW HUSBANDRY,&c. To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine. SIR,

4 Wiele Chorographus has given your very intelligent

cCorrespondent, Agricola Norfolciensis, and me, a Sort of challenge, I do not know that I Should have made any re- marks on bis communication in your last Number, 55, had he not'professed himself ashamed to Speak of our Norfolk com- mons. Lassure you Mr. Editor, we take no Shame to ourzelves on that Score, but great merit. if merit be due to those who have made corn,&c. to grow where they never grew before. He Says, this county contains 80,000 acres of waste; 50 Says Mr. Kent ih his Report to the Board of Agriculture,(a work which Chorographus Seems to häve read with attention) but it ought 19 be recollected, that Mr. Kent's report was made nearly, if Hot quite, ten years ago, Since which time, I do not believe that the inclosing of commons has gone on any where with 50 much Spirit as in this county. 1 priesume your correspondent does not often See a certain weekly publication, called the Norfolk Chronicle, almost every number of which, for the Jast tev years, has contained advertisements relative to in- cJosures. A large, portion of one of the commons he par- ticularly votes, which came under the general denomination of Wyndham common, though not all within the bounds of tbat parizh, was inclosed about four years ago, atid the very extensive common belonging to that parish would have been inclosed also, but for a dificulty which aroge in Settling the extent of claims of certain individuals. Kent, in his report, mentions the parishes of Horsford, Hevingham and Marsham (cvontiguous to each other,) as containing 3000 acres of waste Jand: these are all Since inelosed. Poringiand Heath, which forms part of Six or Seven parishes, is inclosed, and the great beath called Muswold, adjoining Norwich, and extending trom thence Seven or eight miles in length, and from one and a half to two miles in width, consequently containing many