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arc of good fubflance j for whom they flock 

 their farms much better than any pcafants 

 who hire lands in the great culture flock 

 theirs. There is not fo much wheat fovvn 

 here as in fome other parts ; but it yields 

 from two and a half to three quarters aa 

 acre on the lands well fuited to it ; they 

 fow it on clover that has been watered about 

 a fortnight before ploughing, which is a 

 mode they find by experience to be very 

 good. Rye they fow upon the hilly lands, 

 and get about two quarters an acre ; barley 

 yields from two to three; there is not an 

 oat in the country; buck-wheat, millet, 

 and lentils, are all reckoned profitable 

 crops. A common method here is to fow 

 buck-wheat and clover with it, mow the 

 clover twice or thrice, water it, and fow 

 wheat, or fpelt, which yields as much as 

 wheat, then to fow millet, after that buck- 

 wheat, and then lentils ; and fo they go on 

 in a perpetual fucceflion of crops, without 

 the intervention of a fallow. There arc 

 other lands in the more common fyftem of 

 i. Fallow, 2. Wheat or rye, 3. Barley, 

 which are the open fields. Vineyards 

 abound pretty much ; they are often in the 



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