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and fummer following is wed as before. Three feries of 

 crops, of feven years each, will thus occupy a term of 

 twenty-one years, and will run as follows ; 



Which routine of cropping is according to the common 

 marfh pra6lice, and produces on an average of twenty-one 

 years, 



30 bulhels of Wheat 



32 ditto of Beans 



40 ditto of Oats 



24 ditto of Muftard 



30 ditto of Colefeed per acre 



The ftated wages to the ploughmen through the iflands, 

 is, during the winter months, los. 6d. per week wet or dry; 

 when the days are long enough to work after attending their 

 horfes, work is either let out to them, or 6d. per day allowed 

 to them for jobs; the former the labourer always prefers. 

 The harveft ufually begins the firft week in Augufl, and ends 

 about the middle of September. The price for cutting, 

 binding, and inning of wheat, oats and beans, los. 6d. per 

 acre, with an allowance of four bufhels of malt, and two 

 pounds of hops per man; each man will harveft of this corn 

 about fourteen acres ; to this may be added as harveft work, 

 cutting and thraving the muftard feed at los. 6d. per acre, 

 and thrafliing 5s. per quarter, done in the field upon a fheet, 



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