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rounclvals. They give from three to five 

 ploughings for rye, fow two bufhels, the 

 crop about 24. 



For turneps they give three or four 

 earths, never hoe, and reckon the average 

 value per acre at 50 s. ufe them for fheep, 

 and fatting of beafts. Clover they fow 

 with either barley or oats, generally mow 

 it once, (three times have been known,) 

 and get two ton of hay per mowing. 



They prepare for potatoes by ploughing 

 twice or thrice ; dung the land with long 

 horfe dung j lay the fetts in every other 

 furrow, ten inches afunder, and hand-hoe 

 between them if weedy; fometimes they 

 horfe-hoe them : If the land is defigned 

 for wheat, they lime it about Midfiimmer, 

 while the potatoes are growing. The crops 

 rife to 200 hviihch per acre, but the ave- 

 rage about 1 20 ; price about 2 j. a bufhel. 



Lime is their principal manure, though 

 but of a few years flanding : They lay 90 

 bufhels per acre on their arable lands ; 

 cofts them from i \ d. to 3. d. per bufhel, 

 befides leading i they lay it on every fal- 

 low : They likewife ufe it on their mea- 

 dows, and find it to anfwer well. But dung 

 they reckon much better for every thing- 



They 



