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But few turneps cultivated : The method 

 is to plough twice for them, never hoe ; the 

 average value 8 /. Ufe them for beafts 

 and fheep. 



For potatoes they plough thrice, dung 

 the land well, and dibble them in eight or 

 ten inches fquare; they afterwards weed 

 them by hand t The crop from lOO to 200 

 bufnels, at from i j. to i j-. 4 ^. a bufliel : 

 They fow v/heat after them, and get very 

 fine crops, much fuperior to their com- 

 mon ones. 



As to manures, marie is the grand one, 

 which is found under all this country, and 

 generally within fixteen or twenty inches 

 of the furface; it lies in beds, many of 

 them of a vaU: depth, the bottoms of fome 

 pits not being found : It is white, and as 

 foft and foapy as butter. They lay about 

 an hundred two horfe cart loads to an acre, 

 but fome farmers lefs, on to lays and flub-, 

 bles. It lafts a good improvement for 

 twenty years ; cods about 4 /. 10 s. an acre. 

 Their hay they ftack in houfes. 



Good grafs letcs for 26s. an acre; is 

 ufed chiefly for dairying ; one acre and a 

 quarter they reckon enough for a cow in 

 fjmmer, and one acre to four flieep. They 



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