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third plowing (for more than three plowings are 

 feldom given) takes place in the end of September 

 or beginning of Odtober. About 3 bnfliels of feed 

 are fown on the acre, the average returns may be 

 reckoned at 26 bufliels The fpecies cultivated here 

 are the Hertford(hire white, the Eflex down, and 

 the red Lammas, or common r:d. This mode of 

 hufbandrj, however, is more peculiar to the open 

 fields. A different mode of preparing the land for 

 wheat is praclifed in the inclofed farms, where me- 

 liorating crops can be produced. 



Beans and Peas are generally cultivated fepa- 

 rately, the former in confiderable quantities. They 

 are commonly fown after wheat, though beans fonie- 

 times are fown on lands broke up from grafs. The 

 land is once plowed, fonietimes in winter, but ge- 

 nerally early in fpring, according to the feafon ; 

 and in the end of February, or beginning of March, 

 feed, at the rate of 5 bufhels, is fown on the acre. 

 This crop is in general very uncertain, efpecially 

 on the light lands ; but may be eftimated, for a 

 courfe of years, and including all the various foils 

 on which they are cultivated, at 14 bufliels ^^r acre, 

 on the open fields, and 20 bufliels on the old inclofed 

 lands. The kind in ufe here, is the common 

 horfe-bean. 



Oats. — There is but a fmall quantity of oats cul- 

 tivated, compared with the other fpecies of grain j 

 not fo much indeed as is fufficient for the confump- 

 tion of the ordinary working cattle, which are prin- 

 cipally fed with beans. Oats are here fown after 

 wheat, barley, and grafs. In every cafe, one plow- 

 ing fuffices, which is generally given in the fpring. 

 And about the beginning of March, feed, at the 

 rate of 5 or 6 bufliels, is fown on the acre. The 

 average returns may be accounted at 36 bulhels per 



acre. 



