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not pretend to 5ay, as 1 have had no opportunity of comparing them, except with the Sluggish cattle, and equally sSluggish ploughmen, of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire; but your distant readers may be assured that in the longer days of March, April, May,&c. two Statute acres per day is not reckoned in Norfolk more than a“fair day's work," for one Plough and pair of horses, with one man only, of old land, (Provincially“ olland" 2. e.« land that bas been laid down with grasses for the last two years), not 80 much of course is executed, nor even of a“ one year's ley," but of stubbles and “- Summerleys" zz. e. land. in cultivation for turnips from Michaelmas to the June and July following, from an acre and half to two acres is the usual allowance in proportion to the Strength of the cattle.

As /oads Seem a very vague term,(by the bye, Mr. Editor, your plan for a Glossary becomes evidently necessary to fur- ther the intercourse and communications of distant agricul- turists, and to render them intelligible to each other) I beg leave to acquaint Farmer Sandy that a Norfolk load invari- ably means a full weight for four good horses. Two-horse Joads are unknown in our agricultural practice, Whether they are more convenient or expeditious 1 have had no ex- periencg, but as they are in general use in the North, Irathexr SUSPCCt It a good custom, and wortby our Imitation.*

The body of the tumbrils, or caits, we use for carrying manure are usuvally thyee feet wide, four feet Jong and three deep, and the load(except in the case of marl or clay) is al= ways heaped above the sides, to a point, immediately over the axle-tree. Kach load is then Set upon tbe ground in ter nearly equal heap3 and spread tbe same day by the men who filled it, at the rate of twenty-five Shillings per hundred of 5ix Score. If the quality is good and the muck not too long, this quantity we reckon a Suflicient coat for any land not t00 much exhausted by incessant 1lI-ireaument.

* You will ſee, Mr. Editor, whether I am, or am not above local pre- judices and habits, And as the letter was loſt in which I had ſubſcribed my tribute of indignation againſt the ſcurrilous review of a Scotch work, which ſometime ſince appeared to tbe diſgrace of your pages, I take the Preſent opportuniiy of ilaying, how much I diſapprove the remoteſt hint at national iailing or peculiarities, even in politics; how much moxre then in 2 purſuit like ours, in which all parties, all nations, have but one common inferelt; and are bound together by one of the ſtroygelt of all ties, the deſire of mutual and general improvement!

TF As far as I can underſtand Mr. Carpenter's theſis, he does not mean fo depreciate the value of manures, He cayu only intend ſaying that, through cleaning, pulverization, and a ſparing mixture of white-corn cropSz with the more fertilizing ſubſtitutes of tares, beans, peas,&c. will jn ſome meaſure, and by degrees, improve inpoveriſhed loil of a tolerable Raplc3 and I fully agiee with him.