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f()w wheat or barley after them, and are 

 line of a great crop. 



Marie is their great manure ; they have 

 it of all forts, red, white, blue, black, and 

 brown ; they reckon it does bell on the 

 ground it is under; lay from twenty-four 

 to forty fquare yards on an acre. Upoii 

 clay they lay thirty-two ; upon fand forty ; 

 and upon bog the fmie. It cofls about 

 I J-. a yard. It will be an Improvement in 

 fome meafure for ever, if not kept too long 

 in tillage. They have found from expe- 

 rience, that it anfwers well to marie 

 twice. 



Lime they alfo ufe both upon clay and 

 fand, but does bed upon the former : They 

 lay on an acre eighty or an hundred loads, 

 at ten pecks each. Another and excellent 

 way of ufing it is, to plant potatoes upon 

 the fluff thrown out of their ditches, and 

 afterwards mix it up with lime. It coib 

 1 s. a load thirteen miles off. Their boggy 

 land they pare and burn. They buy dung 

 at Mancheftcr at from \d. to 7/ a ton, 

 but agree for it in the lump. They flack 

 their hay at home. 



Good grafs jetts at 30 i. an acre ; they 

 apply it both to fluting and dairying ; and 



reckon 



