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clofe into four equal parts, by cutting two crofs gut- 

 ters quite through into the ditches. Let thefe gut- 

 ters be eighteen inches deep and only ten inches wide, 

 the wages is one penny per rope (of twenty feet) for 

 cutting, and one penny per rope for fpreading about 

 the earth, making it fine, and getting it into the 

 ground ; the whole, being fixty-three ropes, will 

 amount to half-a-guinea ^ and this is all the expence 

 the firll year, for I indulge my workmen or fome 

 other labourers (enough of whom are always to be 

 found) with the privilege of planting potatoes in fo 

 much of the bank in each quarter as I guefs will 

 amount to fifty put-loads, making in the whole two 

 hundred loads. Thefe potatoes I order to be taken 

 up about MichaelmaSy or fooner if I want to flock 

 the field; and that the potatoe labourer may dig 

 the bank quite to the bottom, and throw it round 

 together in a high narrow ridge, I give him one fhil- 

 ling a quarter, that is, four (hillings for the whole. 

 If I want to mow the field the fecond year, I then 

 carry out thefe four potatoe-banks in the froftj but if 

 I do not want to mow the field, I prefer the covering 

 it in the month of May to any other feafon of the 

 year. The bill for doing this will ftand thus: 



£. s. d. 

 To hauling 200 loads of bank-earth, ten days, 

 at IS. 6d. per day - - - - ---0150 



To the hire of a put and one horfe, ditto, at 

 23. 6d. per day --------150 



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