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Crops vary according to the quality of the land, 

 from forty fhillings to three pounds per acre in 

 value,* and are moftly fed off in the field. 



In feeding them off we generally firft draw off a 

 rod in width round the field. This is done to pre- 

 vent the cattle from fpoiling them, by getting near 

 the hedges for fhelter in bad weather. The farmer 

 firft puts in his beaftsf — then his bcft wether fheep, 

 and laftly his lambs, which eat up all the refufe left 

 by the others. 



As foon as the field is cleared of its ftock, we 

 plough it up for barley, and give four earths.-— 

 Sow three bufhels of barley per acre, half above 

 and half under furrow. Fourteen pounds of red 

 clover feedj is harrowed in with the barley, and 

 the land rolled after the barley is come up. The 



• This is, a very indeterminate quantity, as what may be worth 

 forty fhillings in one place may be worth Uiree pounds, or more, or 

 lefs, in another. 



f We cannot agree with the cuftom of turning in beads before 

 iheep intended to be fatted. If the beafts are intended to be fatted, 

 we apprehend tlie intention will be very materially leflTcned, by their 

 running about. A ftalkd Ox ever wliile you live ! — except in fine 

 meadows. 



X Too much. Eight pounds are enough, if the feed be good; but 

 on light lands, five pounds of black grafs, or hop clover milled, and 

 live pounds of broad clover, will anfwcr moft incomparably %vell. 



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