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and the land ploughed, as foon as leifure and the 
weather will permit, for Oats, which are harrowed 
inas foon as the land will work, in February, about 
four bufhels per acre, average produce 24 bufhels. 
Peas are fownas early as poffible in fpring, the 
fort moftly in ufe is the early Burbage; they are 
generally ploughed in under furrow, about five bufh- 
els per acre, average produce twenty-four bufhels. 
Winter Vetches are, in the practice of a few in- 
dividuals, fown in quantity to eat off with ftore 
fheep; they are ufually fown after wheat, as foon 
after harveft as opportunity allows. The fheep are 
put on them the latter end of May or beginning of 
June. They are commonly hurdled off in the fame 
manner as turnips; but if a bulky crop, the better 
way is to give them through rack hurdles, which 
are made the fame as the common five-railed ones, 
only leaving the middle rail out, and nailing fpars 
acrofs at proper diftances, to admit the fheep to put 
their heads through. A fwarth of vetches being 
mown acrofs the lands, a fufficient number of thefe 
hurdles, allowing one to five fheep, are fet clofe to 
it; at noon the fhepherd mows another fwarth, and 
throws it to the hurdles, and the fame at night; 
next morning, a {warth being firft mowed, the hur- 
dies are again fet; thus moving them once in 
twenty-four hours; by this trifling additional trou- 
ble, the vetches are clean eaten off, and the land 
equally benefited. As faft as the lands are cleared, 
they 
