506 OF THE FAST COAST FROM TI1K 



practice, much to his honour and emolument. The 

 barren heaths that once fur. . him, arc no.v . 



verted into rich fields or" ' incl 



his clover was at t ! d, und >nd 



harveft. 



" lie is likewife a great planter; h- ,1 his 



dingles with trees, but av 



or he fays they will not thrive on this 

 coaft, except in flickered bott plant- 



ings on the upper grounds are (hinted, ca 

 mofs-grown. 



" Mr. Barclay firft fet about his improvements in 

 1768 ; fince which he has reclaim* ;. 400 at 



continues to finifh about 100 annual!; 



clearing away the, itoncs, ami trimm: 

 Thefe, with the plowing, feed, 6cc. amount to 

 expence of lol. an acre. The firft crop is com- 

 monly oats, and brings in 61. an acre; the fecond, 

 white peas, worth fometimes as much, but gener. 

 only 4-1. turnips are the third crop, and ufually 

 worth 61. the fourth is barley, of the fame value ; 

 clover fuccetds, worth about 4!. and laftly wheat, 

 which brings in about 7!. los. an acre, but ' 

 more. 



" As foon as the land is once thoroughly imprr 

 it is thrown into this courfe : turnips, barley, clover, 

 and wheat ; fometimes turnips, b lover, 



rye-grafs. He fometimes breaks up the lail 

 white peas, and afterwards for wheat, and ibmeti 

 fallows from the grafs, and manures it for wheat, by 

 folding his fheep. 



f( The land thus improved, was original! 

 and that which was arable, p: ;nolt mifera 



crops of a poor degenerate oat, and was upon the 

 whole not worth i (hillings an acre; but in its pre- 

 fcnt improved (late is worth 20, and the tenants 

 would live twice as well as before the improvement. 



" Someof the fields have been fallowed fro; 

 and fown with wheat, and produced large crops. 



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