With barley ; they get 1 5 Cwf. of hay of^ 

 it the firft crop, and 10 or 12 Cwt. the 

 fecond ; but fometimes they feed one crop. 



Their culture of potatoes is as follows : 

 They dung the lay ground well; lay the 

 Dices (18 bufhels) on the dung, and then 

 dig trenches two fpits wide, and cover the 

 letts, which are laid feven inches fquare, 

 with the turfs and moulds that rife : If 

 weeds come they are drawn out by hand. 

 The crop, upon an average, 180 bufhels 

 per acre. Barley they fow after them, 

 and get thirty bufhels an acre. This is 

 the lazy-bed way. 



As to manure, they can at prefent boaft 

 a little, for lime is in ufe among them, 

 but it has been only for two or three years ; 

 they lay 90 or loo bufhels an acre on to 

 fallow for wheat, cofts 4!^. perbu(he\; 

 they do not pare and burn ; ftack their hay 

 in houfes, but know nothing of chopping 

 their ftubbles. 



Good grafs letts from 2 /. to 3 /. They 

 ufe it chiefiy for the dairy : An acre and a 

 quarter, or an acre and an half, they reckon 

 fufficient for the fummer feed of a cow ; 

 and an acre to keep four or five flieep. 

 Their breed of cattle is the long horned. 



The 



