79 



N IV. 



75 a. maize, 

 75 - wheat, 



75 - 

 75 - 



300 a. in 4 fields* 



N III. and IV. give light crops, mostly 

 of a cheap corn, very poor pasture, and but 

 little hay (if any), for the emolument of the 

 farmer, the comfort of a stock of hide- 

 bound beasts, and the preservation of a 

 soil, which is in an obvious consumption. 

 Under such severe treatment, land is con- 

 tinually losing strength ; and it may be, 

 greater productions are here allowed than 

 the old settled maize farms yield, and than 

 new ones can long continue to yield under 

 the old habits of a less rational mode of 

 farming, if it may be called farming. 



We almost universally cultivate one field 

 in maize, whatever may be in the other 

 fields. The maize, being frequently plough- 



