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months after the term of entry, and fo on half year- 

 ly during the currency of the leafe. 



The average rent of the inclofed lands, which 

 are generally exempted from tithes, may be ac- 

 counted at 20 s. the acre, that of the open field 

 lands, which are fubjedl to the payment of tithes in 

 kind, may be reckoned at 8 s. The tithes may be 

 reckoned at from 3 s. to 3 s, 6d. per acre over the 

 whole open field farm, including even that part of 

 it which is annually under fallow. 



MODES OF TILLAGE adopted for raifing the dif- 

 ferent Species of Crops. 



In every part of this dillricft, plowing is perform- 

 ed by a man and a boy, with 3, 4, and fonietimes 

 5 horfes in a fingle length ; and though the foil (as 

 has been already obferved) is of very different qua- 

 lities, yet the fame expenfive mode of plowing, with 

 a few exceptions, univerfally prevails. 



. IVheat. — A certain proportion of the tillage lands 



is regularly under wheat, perhaps about one third 



of the whole. It is generally fown in the open 



fields after fallow, but on the inclofed farms alfo, 



after beans or clover ftubble. When intended to 



be fown on fallow, the land is firft plowed late in 



the. autumn, and a fecond time in the courfe of the 



fummer, before which dung from the farm-yard, 



without any earth or other mixture, at the rate of 



11 or 14 cart loads *, is laid on the acre ; and the 



third 

 * Dimenfions of the ordinary dung cart. 



Length at top, 7 feet 6 inches. 



Ditto at bottom, 5 feet g, inches. 



Breadth at top, 3 feet 9 inches. 



Ditto at bottom, 3 feet. 



Height of fides, a feet. 



