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irierly, but four is the number ufually yoked. Two horfes in a 

 plough was never heard of here till I came to this country j though, 

 I think, under proper management, oxen might be employed with 

 advantage •, and I (hall give reafons in fupport of this opinion, in a 

 future communication, 



A good deal of the land here is pared and burned, which is 

 found to do well upon the old meadows. We don't pay much at- 

 tention to dung, except when required for the turnip fields, which 

 have of late greatly increafed. Our chief manure is lime, with 

 which this country abounds •, the quality various. The general 

 method is, to lime every fifth year; and the common rotation up- 

 on the dry land is, fallow, wheat, barley, clover, and wheat. Thi* 

 year, wheat after clover is looking better than after fallow, though 

 the crop is In general very thin, and nothing like to what it was 

 laft year at this time : the late dry weather has been in its favour, 

 and it looks tolerably healthy. Some fields are beginning to fliow 

 the ear. The dry gravels have the beft appearance, as the wetnefs 

 of April and May was beneficial to land of that defcription j but 

 the clays have fufFered much, and, to all appearance, will not pro- 

 duce half a crop j the late fowing, and the bad feed ufed, bein^ 

 much againft it. Our markets are high for every article. Wheat 

 is 48s. and 50s. per bufhel of 20 gallons (27 bufhels Winchefter) j 

 barley 3CS. ; oats not to be got , oat meal fells at is. per quart, 

 but there is little ufed in this part of the country. Potatoes 

 are very dear, both old and new *, the latter fold in Cardiff market, 

 on Saturday, at 6d. per lib. ; beef from 6d. to pd. •, mutton 8^d. ; 

 veal 6d. *, lamb 6d. •, dry bacon I4d.j butter from lod. to l«;. ; 

 cheefe of new milk 8d. : ditto of ewe milk 9d. ; ditto of fkimmed 

 miik 6d. ; all per pound of 16 ounces j hay 61. per ton ; ftraw 

 equally high in proportion. The crop of hay feems a middling one 

 this year. The clover and rye-grafs harveft is moftly finiftied, and 

 we will foon begin to cut the meadows, which are generally fuffi- 

 cient work till, the corn harveft arrives." 



NoribumberJand Quarterly Report. 



The crops upon dry foils are, in general, looldng well 5 but up- 

 on clavs, — ftrong loams,— wet, and cold-bottomed lands, the ap- 

 pearance is very unpromifing ; a great failure has been occafion- 

 ed, on fuch foils, by the deftruftive effetfls of the Beetle Grub *, 

 particularly in the wheat and oats fown upon clover leas. Many 



fields 



* This Grub is from i inch tori inch, long of a browniHi grey colour. Some 

 nf them were put in a box with earth, an 1 regularly fed, but have not y*t 

 niade any change ; others have b«en opaned, and the embryo of the Blaclc 

 beetle taketi out cf t^em. 



