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thefe three hoeings I commonly pay from fifteen 

 to eighteen fhillings per acre. 



When carrots are intended to be fown after 

 peafe, I ufually plough the Hubble as foon as the 

 harvefl: is over, in order that the land may purge 

 itfelf of weeds ; in December it is laid up in fmall 

 balks to receive the benefit of the froftsj in Fe- 

 bruary it is harrowed down, and manured at the rate 

 of fifteen loads per acre; the manure is ploughed 

 in to the depth of about four inches, and in the 

 middle of March the land is double furrowed, 

 and the feed fown. By purfuing of this method, 

 the manure lies in the centre of the foil, and not 

 only affords nourifhment and fupport to the carrot 

 in its perpendicular progrefs, but renders it eafy to 

 be turned up by a fingle ploughing, and greatly 

 promotes the growth of the fucceeding crop of 

 barley. With this crop I ufually lay down the land 

 with ryc-grafs, in which f!:alc it remains for two 

 years before it is again ploughed up, and fome- 

 times longer. 



The carrots being fit to take up, I put them out 

 to my labourers, fometimes by the acre, and fome- 

 timcs by the load, containing forty bufhels; for the 

 former, if a good crop, I pay for taking up and 

 topping ten fhillings and fix-pence per acre ; for 



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