~l r °* SEAWEED AS MANURE. 



almost, touch one another. We generally allow two cart- 

 loads, or sixteen horse-loads, to a vergee. 



Crops. In the latter end of March, or beginning of April, this. 



ground is ploughed deep, and sown generally with barley. 

 Some sow a sort of wheat which we call /rente, which must 

 be sown the beginning of March ; others sow the common 

 red wheat in the beginning of December, allowing the 

 same quantity of ashes ; but instead of vraic they put dung. 

 This is the way of our ploughing the first year. The se- 

 cond year the soil is manured and ploughed as the first, 

 but always sown with barley, at the season before-men- 

 tioned. The third year there is no manure used, nor the 

 following years. AU the ground is either dug with a spade, 

 or turned with two ploughs, one following the other in the 

 same furrow, that the ground may be turned deep. In 

 January and February beans are planted in ridges, and 

 parsnips sown all over the ground ; the weeding and 

 digging of which is very expensive ; but nothing that I 

 know answers better than parsnips to fatten hogs or black 

 cattle. 



This ground that has been dug deer), stirred in the 

 weeding, and again dug to get the parsnips, is finely pre- 

 pared to sow wheat the fourth year, which is done in De- 

 cember and January. I generally sow clover seed in it in 

 the beginning of April, which I think better than taking 

 oats the filth year ; for it impoverishes the soil, and its pro- 

 duce is not answerable. However, most people sow oats 

 after their wheat and clover seed. 



I*. Now as to the produce. This cannot be exactly ascer- 



tained, as it depends on the nature of the soil, goodness of 

 the season, &c. So I will fix it as near as I can at a me- 

 dium. Of barley, we have sixteen bushels per vergee, each 

 bushel fourteen gallons ; of beans, about eight bushels 

 {same measure) per vergee ; and five cart-loads of parsnips. 

 The produce of wheat is about fourteen bushels, of ten 

 gattons each, per vergee. We have about the same number 

 *f bushels of oats, at fourteen gallon* each. 



