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The months of September or October are the best to commence 

 the tillage. The instrument made use of, is a strong foot plough, 

 without wheels, cost 2I. 2s. The breadth of the plit about 10, 

 and the depth 4 inches. Four horses, or six oxen will turn about 

 three fourths of an acre in eight hours. A man is employed to go 

 after the plough, with a spade to repair balks, to dig up stones, and 

 to lay the plit flat : this ploughing may be valued from twelve, to 

 twenty shillings per acre. In this state it remains to be mellowed 

 by the winter frosts, till March, when black oats are sown, after 

 the rate of iix or seven bushels per acre, and harrowed in by four 

 turns of the harrow on the same ground. A few farmers previous 

 to this sowing, have lately adopted the plan of hacking the surface 

 at the expence of four shillings per acre : by which means less seed 

 will do, and the same is more regularly distributed, and better co- 

 vered, beside the hacking and harrowing is not more expensive 

 ■than the troublesome dragging before-mentioned : the expence of 

 either of these operations may be estimated at seven shillings per 

 acre. 



After this it is rolled at an expence of one shilling per acre.. 

 Nothing more is done till harvest, and the average produce may 

 he set at twenty-five bushels per acre, the straw of which will pay 

 •for harvesting and threshing (that is about eight shillings per 

 acre.) 



Soon after harvest, or indeed at any part of the winter, the 

 ground is cross plowed with the double furrow plough, value six 

 shillings per acre. Harrowed in March, value two shillings, and in 

 April the liming is begun, Four horses and two men, with two 

 carts, holding 32 bushels of lime each, (if the kiln be not at a 

 greater distance than one mile) will cover i\ acre per day, at the 

 rate of 160 bushels per acre. 



The lime is deposited in heaps of one bushel, at the distance of 

 i6| feet every way. Cost per acre (value of lime included) thirty- 

 five shillings. 



Covering these heaps with earth, and afterwards spreading them, 

 (which should be done as soon as the lime is dissolved) are worth 

 one shilling and six-pence per acre. 



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