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ANSWERS to the feveral QUERIES refpeaing the Pariaiot* Dunmox^ 



Proposed by Mr. VANCOUVER, 



Under DIreaion of the BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 



By the Rev. JOHN HOW LETT, Great Dunmow, F-JJex. 



!• X HIS you have yoiirfelf doubtlefs acquired fufficicnt knowledge of by your perfonal 

 enquiries. 



2. Our largefl: farm contains about 320 acres, exchifive of woods; which contains 130 more. 

 We have about twenty-five farms under thirty acres each. All the reft of intermediate fize. 

 But then we have feveral farmers who occupy three, four, or more farms a piece ; but not- 

 withftanding this, no individual holds 400 acres. 



3. We have 3974 acres of cultivated arable land, 900 of paflure, and 300 of woodland. Of 



the pafture 500 is very good, 200 very indifferent, and 200 tolerably good. The hay from 

 the beft is frequently fold at three guineas an acre, and the feed of the after-grafs let at 

 twelve (hillings ; and at that price are fonietimes really cheap. 



4. No particular grafles are cultivated ; they are here the immediate produce of nature, vary- 



ing only according to the variety of foil and fituation. When arable is oceafionally laiii 

 down to pafture, it is ufually, I believe, by fowing rye grafs and clover. I know not that 

 our live ftock is fubjeft to any particular maladies, different from thofe common in the 

 neighbourhood, which you probably informed yourfelf of in your perfonal vifits. 



6. T believe very little of our land is capable of being artificially watered. 



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7. Our principal grains are wheat, barley, oats, peas and beans ; our feeds, clover, rape, and 

 turnips ; of the laft a very fmall proportion. The average rent of our arable land may be 

 eftimated at about twelve or fourteen ftiillings per acre ; and its produce of wheat twenty 

 bufhels, of barley and oats about four quarters, of peas and beans between three and JFour, 

 of clover feed between three and four bufliels, of rape three quarters. This laft year the 

 wheat was fcarcely fixteen buftiels, the barley little more than three quarters, and peas not 

 four bufliels, in many inftances none at all. 



7. Different 



