( 50 ) 



The courfe of hufbandry through this diftri£t, is to make 

 a thorough fummer and winter fallow for oats or bar- 

 ley, with a fmall proportion of which is fown clover, 

 dunged when youn^, and after lying one year, the ley is 

 fown with wheat upon once ploughing. The wheat etches 

 are often dunged in the winter, and drilled with beans in 

 the fpring following, two rows upon a four furrow ridge, 

 kept well hoed during fummer, the bean etche well cleaned 

 in the autumn, and fown again with wheat: a fmall portion 

 of thefe etches are occafionally fown with tares, which are 

 fed off, or left to fland for a crop, and in either cafe the 

 land is fallowed again in courfe for fpring corn. The black 

 grafs through this diftridl is extremely troublefome, and 

 without winter fallowing, it is alledged to be utterly im- 

 polfible to keep it within fuch bounds as would admit any 

 reafonable chance for a crop of wheat. 



The quantity of feed ufed in this diftrift (through the 

 heavier part of number feven, and the whole of number 

 ten, is much the fame, and) maybe ftated thus, viz. wheat 

 from eleven to twelve pecks — barley from fifteen to fixteen 

 pecks — oats from feventeen to nineteen pecks — tick and 

 horfe beans, when drilled, two furrows upon a three-foot 

 ridge twelve pecks; the fame drilled every furrow fixteen 

 peck?, and clover fixteen pounds to the acre, producing 

 upon an average through this diftridl as per the index table. 



25 bufliels I peck of wheat per acre 

 32 bufheis I peck of barley 

 38 bufheis 3 pecks of oats 

 32 bufheis of beans 



The circumflances of this diftri<3, which are further ex- 

 plained by the faid table, are, that the average rent of the 

 arable land is 15s. per acre: that the fuperior pafture is 



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