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ed and prepared ; and then thrown into 

 the rotation of crops as above ; and that 

 which had been in crops, was sown with 

 mixed grass seeds (not clover), to lay as 

 before ten or twenty years. The whole 

 arable or ploughable part of the farm, was 

 thus divided into moieties, or nearly so, 

 exclusive of the homestead and standing 

 meadow. So that a farm of 300 acres 

 (besides homestead and meadow) admit-* 

 ted of 150 acres in grass, lay or old field, 

 and 150 in crops. Their fields bearing 

 crops were seldom equal in quantity : but 

 in the following design, I have considered 

 them so. 



No. I. 



3,7 a. fallow, naked, yields nothing exh. 

 37 -wheat, 15 bushels 555 exhausting, 

 37 - peas or beans, - 555 ameliorating 

 37 - barley, 20 bushels 740 exhausting. 



150 a. in crops, 4 fields, 1850 bushels , 

 150 in grass or lay. 



300 acres, 



