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 or 450 biiil:ie"!s/'^r acre ; after them they Tow 

 corn of all forts, and get great crops. 



Marie is their principal manure, both 

 white, black, blue, fandy, and fome Ihell 

 marie. They fometimes find perfect cockle 

 and periwinkle fhells, nine yards deep, in 

 beds of marie. The furface is from one to 

 four feet of thicknefs above it : Twenty- 

 three fquare yards does an acre. It is 

 quite foft and foapy. The land will be for 

 €ver the better for it : It does beft on light 

 foils. The marie hufoandry here is to 

 plough three years, and let it lie three. 

 They find a fecond, and even a third marl- 

 ing, to anfwer well : The average expence 

 about 4/. per acre. 



Lime they alfo ufe: Lay 50 windles^fr 

 acre, at is. 4^. pervnndXo. , and fometimes 

 up to 80 and iQO; the expence to 5/. 

 and 6/. ioj. per^cvQ; lafts generally four 

 or five years in great heart ; but, with very 

 good management, for twenty years. 



Good grafs letts from 3c j-. to 35J. an 

 acre, they ufe it chiefly for cows, and rec- 

 kon an acre and a quarter fufficient for the 

 fummer feed of a cow, and four fheep to 

 the acre. They manure their paftures 

 with both marie and lime. The breed of 



their 



