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clover crop (or where th:5t fails, a crop of tares) by the cuftom of the country fs deemed a 

 fallow, as is ahla a crop of peas or beans, provided they are twice well and feafouabiy hued ia 

 the courfe of the fummer. 



9. Various manures are partially ufed ; but in general the farmfers depend chifly on that which 

 arifes from their own land?: th^ dung from the farm yard therefore is carted out in the 

 fpring, which is carefully turned over and mixed with foil, wherever it can be fparcd from 

 the fides of lanes or roads, or from the fkirts of the enclofures; and fometimes a portion of 

 Hue, chalk or rubbifti, is added, where it can eafily be obtained: but to the pooreft of our 

 li^ht lands, nothing is lb great an improvement as clay or marl, which is generally laid -on 

 at the rate of about lixty loads to an acre; but on land particularly light, and where this 

 buiinefs is intended to be done very efledually, eighty loads per acre is frequently laid, which 

 is" a dreffing of fifteen bufliels to every fcjuare rod, fuppofing our dung carts to hold thirty 

 bufnels. The clay is dug, the carts filled, and the clay fpread on the land, at about fix 

 Ihillings for every twenty loads : this, as wellas being an efFedual and cheap improvement, 

 is alfo a lading one, as the good effefts af it, are experienced twelve, fifteen, and fometimes 

 almoft twenty years afterwards. 



10. The foot-plough is here ufed more than the wheel-plough, as being cheaper, and eafier 

 repaired ; which with the waggons and dung carts, with deep buck and upright fides, and 

 harrows and rolls of various conflrudions, are the ufual implements of hufljandry. 



11. Oxen are very rarely ufed here for draught. 



12. Barley feed time (if the weather permits) commences early in February, and it is frequently 

 the middle of April before the oats are all fown ; for our farmers (for the fake of a little 

 more feed) are very «pt to let their turnips, colefeed, or cabbages, remain too long in the 

 ground. Wheat is fown from the middle of September to the middle of November. 

 Harveft frequently commences the middle of July, and fometimes is not finiflied till the 

 firfi: or fecond week in September. 



13. Our lands are all enclofed, and have been from time immemorial. 

 15. And our enclofures are of all fizes from two to thirty acres. 



18. There is fcarcely any wafte land in this parifh. 



20. The price of labour is is. 6d, per day of twelve hours, from fix in the morning to fix at eve ; 

 orjn winter, as long as it is light ; but the chief of the work is done by the piece, where it 

 will admit of being let ; but the prices of work vary fo much, according to fituation, 

 foil, feafon, and other circumftunces, that it is impoffible to ftate particulars of all kind of 

 work. Corn is generally cut, and fometimes even houfed per acre; it is threfhed per 

 quarter ; wheat at 2s. 6d. barley about is. 6d. or is. 8d. and oats is. 2d. per quarter. Fencing 

 is done by the rod. Land-ditching (or under-ditching) in the ufucl mode, is done at abdut 

 2S. gd. for every twenty rods, though the leading ditches, which are cut deeper, and require 

 more attention, are paid for at the rate of 2|d, per rod, or perhaps 4s. 6d. per fcore. Timber 



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