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only encourages all to marry, but keeps 

 them in his fervice after they have fami- 

 lies : Every couple finds a refidence here, 

 and an annual allowance of coals. This is 

 a moll incoQiparable method of advancing 

 population, and confequently the good of 

 the nation at large \ nor can it be too 

 much imitated. Above forty houfes are 

 already erected. 



The foil about Shapp is generally a loam 

 upon a lime-ftone, in fome places thin, 

 but in others deep ; letts from i s. to 20 s, 

 an acre ; but the inclofures generally 20 j". 



Farms from 40/. to 400 /. a year. 



Their courfe, 



1 . Break up, and fow oats 



2. Oats 



3. Barley 



4. Oats, and then down again. 

 This is execrable. 



They plough but once for barley, fow 

 two bufhels, and gain about twenty. For 

 oats they give three or four ploughings, 

 fow feven bufhels and a half, and gain 

 thirty-five in return. 



Good grafs letts at 20^. and 25^. an acre; 

 it is ufed both for dairying and fatting. 



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