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from the woodland pasture must also be made good, to prevent 

 depredations on the fields by my own stock. 



Crops, $c. for 1801 



No. 5 is to be in corn, and to be invariably in that article. 

 It is to be planted (if drills are thought to be ineligible until 

 the ground is much improved) in rows six feet by four, or 

 seven feet by three and a half, the wide part open to the south. 

 These hills are to be manured as highly as the means will ad 

 mit; and the corn planted every year in the middle of the 

 rows of the preceding year ; by doing which, and mixing the 

 manure and earth by the plough and other workings, the 

 whole in time will be enriched. 



The washed and gullied parts of this field should be lev 

 elled, and as much improved as possible, or left uncultivated. 

 Although it is more broken than some of the other fields, it 

 has its advantages. 1st, It has several inlets extending into 

 it, with easy ascents therefrom; secondly, it is convenient to 

 the mud in the bed of the creek, whensoever (by means of the 

 scow) resort is had thereto, and has good landing-places ; 

 and, thirdly, it is as near to the barn as any other, when a 

 bridge and causeway shall be made over the Spring Branch. 

 To these may be added, that it is more remote from squirrels 

 than any other. 



No. 6 and No. 7, or such part thereof as is not so much 

 washed or gullied, as to render ploughing ineligible, are to 

 be fallowed for wheat. One of which, if both cannot, is to 

 have the stubble ploughed in and sown with rye, and the low 

 and strong parts to have timothy or orchard grass seeds, 

 perhaps both, in different places, sprinkled over them, for 

 the purpose of raising seed. On the rye pasture the sheep are 

 to be fed in winter and spring, and treated in all respects as 

 No. 3 in 1800. 



