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farms of 50 acres each, which deferves partlculnr attention. 

 The full farm was well cultivated, and had nearly one third 

 part in ch)verj the fecond I»ad no clover, and was cultivated ia 

 the common way. The former contained 8 acres of wheat, 

 8 acres of barley, 8 acres of potatoes, 8 acres of oats, and \6 

 ncres of clover, with 2 acres of meadow ; and it m:untain< d a 

 ilock of 7 cows and a bull, 7 youn^ cattle, (5 (lieep, 3 pigs, 

 and 6 horfes. The latter contained only 4 acres of wh'-at, 

 4 acres of barley, 8 acres oars, 4 acres potatoes, 4 acres mea- 

 dow, 26 acres grafs, and maintained only 4 horfes, 8 cows, 

 6 young cattle, and a few Iheep. The Reporter afcribes this 

 dilFerence foiely to the introdu6lion of clover ; but it was doubt- 

 jefs occafioned, in part, by the raifmg ti iTre,)ter quantity of 

 potatoes, and by a more improved cultivation. We find after- 

 wards, that there was not fo j^ood a rotation of crops as mi^ht 

 have been edablilhed on the hrd mentioned farm*, and yet its 

 annual produce was at lead lool. more Vcduable than that of the 

 fecond ; or it was 2I. per acre of greater annual produce. This 

 itatement of fa6fs is worth a thoufand fpeculations on agricul- 

 ture, or calculations of expence and proht. 



The Fifth Chapter of this Report refpe6ts the Implements of 

 J^Iufbandry. 



Here we find, that ' thofe which are In general ufe are fe\r 

 and fimple : Cars for draught horfes; ploughs for tillage, of n9 

 great ingenuity, but light and Itrong; and harrows, for either one 

 or two horfes. * It would have been a little more fatisfaclory to 

 have informed us, what is the uiual price of thefe cars, when 

 the axle ftill turns with the wheels; how great a load they carry; 

 whether thefe wheels have iron hoops or rings ; and whether 

 they ilill be all of wood. We obferve, with pleafure, that ex- 

 cellent implements of hufbandry are ufed by the proprietors, 

 a!id by the fird clafs of farmers. Thefe will be gradually adopt- 

 ed by the middling farmers; and then the fmall farmer will 

 either obtain them, or he muft foon become a day-labourer, 

 from the difidvantages attending fmall farms and bad implements 

 of hufbandry, and from the rife that is taking place in the money- 

 price of labour. 



The Sixth Chapter, on the fubje<5l of Fences, informs us, that 

 the enclofures, in general, are a difgrace to the county, generally 

 confining of a ditch or bank, without any hedge, fometimes 

 having a few plants of furze ftuck into the bank, but very rarely 

 planted with quicks, though the raifing of hedges is well under- 

 llood, and, the Reporter hopes, will foon be more generally 

 pradlifed. We think, that dry-ftone walls, or Galloway dikes, 

 iliould be generally ufed in a country fo full of (tones ; and that 



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