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a-breaft an acre a day, and rife clover enough for 

 fummer; and, by two or three hoeings, turnips 

 enough for winter, to maintain probably as many 

 cattle, as in the beginning of this century were fed 

 on their whole farms; many of which, I apprehend, 

 were then little more than rough cow-paftures. 

 Our medium crops, about three quarters of wheat, 

 four quarters of barley and oats, three quarters of 

 beans and pcafe, per acre. Rent, rates, and tithe, 

 about il. IS. per acre. 



We have no delicate inflruments: a few have a 

 double-breaftcd plough to earth up betwixt the 

 beans. Our hoeing is entirely by hand; the two 

 hoeings of beans, peafe, or turnips, nine (hillings 

 per acre, without beer. In general a third flight 

 hoeing is eflential, and pays well; as thefe ftronger 

 foils, thus pulverized, and richly dunged, and the 

 turnips not left nearer than at a foot fquare, grow 

 them to a great bulk. 



I once prefented to the late moft worthy repre- 

 fentative of Colchcftcr, Mr. Gray, a fpecimen of 

 three turnips, that weighed twenty pounds each, 

 from an acre where one with another every turnip 

 was conjedured to weigh fix pounds. Six flailed 

 Scots were fattened from four acres. The only 

 drawback is from the chance of feafons, either in 



feeding 



