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it, a garden and land ; making about one acre and one six- 

 teenth of an acre, including the garden. He is a collier: and 

 the management of the ground is in a great measure left to his 

 wife. The soil was a thin covering of about three or four inch- 

 es of strong loam, over a clay impregnated with iron, and con- 

 sidered as the worst soil They pay three shillings sterling of 

 yearly rent for the house and land. It was leased to thegj 

 thirty-eight years ago, for three lives, one of which is dead. 



The wife has managed the ground in a particular manner, 

 for thirteen years, w-ith potatoes and wheat, chiefly by her«wn 

 labor ; and in a way which has yielded good crops, fully equal 

 or rather superior to the produce of the neighboring farms, and 

 with little or no expense. 



The potato and the wheat land (exclusive of the garden) 

 contains sixty-four digging poles of land, (eighty yards square 

 to the pole, and seventy-five of which make an acre,) and is di- 

 rided into two parts. One of the divisions she plants alternate- 

 ly wuth potatoes, and the other is sown with wheat. On the 

 wheat stubble she plants potatoes in rows ; and sows wheat on 

 the potato ground. She puts dung in the bottom of the rows 

 where she plants potatoes ; but uses no dung for the wheat. 

 And she has repeate^. this succession for nearly thirteen years; 

 but with better success and more economy, during the last six 

 or seven years. 



She provides manure, by keeping- a pig, and by collecting all 

 the manure she can from her house, and by mixing it with the 

 scrapings ofc the roads, &c. She forms it into a heap, and 

 ^ ns itj before she puts it on her ground for potatoes. 



