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on ridges, with intervals, the digging might have 

 been performed at lefs expence than the ploughing. 

 From this and many other trials, I am inclined to 

 give the preference to digging up, and in all cafes 

 where labourers can be procur^, 



* 1786. 



EXPERIMENT NO. V. — FIFTY ACRES. 



Soil, woodcock loam, 'i8s. per acre; — thefe were 

 two fields of a four«years old ley, and mofly j 

 they wer£ ploughed in November, crofs-plough'd 

 in March, then harrowed and planted in May, 

 in beds five feet wide, alleys 3 feet. 



EXPENCES. 



1785, November, 



Carried over £.513 13 



