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produced a ton of hay per annum extraordinary on 

 account of any one or ilnore of thofe dreflings; if 

 fo, the tenant is fully paidj but if it has not, there 

 muft be fome fault in performing the labour. — 

 However, if it fhould have produced from one 

 to ten tons a year, in addition to the ufual crop, 

 on account of thefe repeated dreflings, it will be an 

 ample profit for the tenant, abftraded from the 

 advantage arifing to the landlord in improving 

 the fee. 



When all the bank-earth is compleatly finiflied 

 carrying about the land, I then, and not till then, 

 proceed to gutter this field all over, beginning ex- 

 a6lly thirty-three feet from the ftraiteft fide, and fo 

 let each gutter be thirty-three feet from the other, 

 till the whole is finifhed. I ufually have but one 

 draught gutter, and am always diredled in a wet 

 feafon by the height of the water where to fix it ; 

 but it very feldom makes any difference in this level 

 country, and in that cafe I prefer the middle of the 

 field. The reafon why I am fo particular with 

 regard to the exad diflance of thirty- three (ect, 

 is, becaufe it is half a chain, and is fully fufBcient 

 for a row or parcel of green hay ; befides, I can 

 form a judgment as to the quantity of labour per- 

 formed, according to the length of the field j for 

 if it be five chains long, the plot between the 



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