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For oats they plough but once, fow fix 

 buihels before barley, and gain, in return, 

 from four to fix quarters. Beans and peafe 

 they mix, and fow of them four buihels 

 on one ploughing, broad caft ; never hoe 

 them; the crop about 25 bufliels. For 

 peafe they give but one ploughing, fow three 

 buihels and a half, and get 20 in return. 

 For rye, after turneps, they plough but 

 once, after a fallow three or four times, 

 fow two buihels, ahd get 30. They 

 flir for turneps three or four times, hoe 

 once, in common, and fometlmes twice j 

 the average value per acre, 50^-. They 

 ufe them chiefly for feeding iheep. 



Clover they fow with barley, and mow 

 it for hay, of which they get about two 

 tons per acre -, and fow oats after. 



In the management of their manure in 

 the farm-yard, they have only fuch as they 

 make from feeding their hay and ftraw, 

 as they flack the former not in the fields, 

 but in the farm yards. They know nothing 

 of chopping flubbles. Of lime they lay 

 from three to eight loads, 30 buihels each; 

 it cofls 4 J. a load, befides the leading. 

 They never fold their fheep. 



Good grafs land letts at los. an acre; 



they 



