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stock must suffer for want of the straw ; and it is to be treated 

 in every respect as has been directed for No. 1, that is, the 

 stubble to be ploughed in immediately after harvest, and rye 

 sowed thereon, with grass-seeds where the soil is strong 

 enough to rear them, for the purpose of producing seed 

 again. 



No. 4. The part thereof which lies northeast of the mea 

 dow, commonly called Manley s Field, is to remain well en 

 closed, and no stock suffered to run thereon until it comes 

 in rotation to be fallowed for wheat in 1801. The other 

 part of the same No. 4 is to be equally well enclosed, and kept 

 from stock ; and, except the part along Muddy-Hole Branch 

 (which is to be added to No. 5, in order to supply .the de 

 ficiency occasioned by taking the clover lot No. 2 from it), 

 is to be planted with peach trees, at sixteen feet and a half 

 asunder, except so much of it as lies flat, by the gate on the 

 Mill road, which, if properly prepared, it is supposed would 

 bring grass, and on that account is to be planted at double 

 that distance, namely, at thirty-three feet apart. What is 

 here meant by enclosing this part of No. 4 well, is, that the 

 outer fence shall be secure, for it will remain as now undivided 

 from No. 3, otherwise than by the Branch. 



No. 5. Is also to be kept for stock ; and, when it comes 

 in course to be fallowed for wheat, is to have the addition 

 above mentioned, along the Branch, added thereto, and sown 

 in this article. 



No. 6. Will receive such an addition to its size from No. 

 7, as will make it, exclusive of the lot for clover, lucerne, &c., 

 of equal size thereto. Part of this field is now sown with, and 

 will be in wheat in 1800. Part will be in oats, particularly 

 where the pease grew ; and all that part of it, and No. 7 also, 

 which lies low, from the meadow fence by the overseer s house, 

 quite up to the head springs of the Branch, reclaimed in the 



