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 an average, five quarters. For oats they 

 plough once, fow five bufliels, and gain 

 from forty to fifty. Very few turneps arc 

 fovvn by farmers, but fome by gentlemen. 



The farmers are getting more into tillage 

 than formerly, and to their prejudice, for 

 barley will only grow with much manure. 

 The town of Manchejlcr fetting up malt- 

 kiln§ in oppofition to thofe of Torkjljiret 

 is what encourages the farmers to extend 

 their tillag-e. 



Clover they fow with barley, mow it 

 twice, and gain two ton and a half the 

 firft time, and about a ton the fecond. 



Potatoes they prepare for by digging, 

 generally grafs land for the firft crop j 

 they flice and dibble them in one foot 

 afunder every way, twenty bufliels to the 

 acre : Hand-hoe and hand-weed. The 

 produce generally from three to four bufliels 

 from a perch, or about 500 per acre : — 

 Wheat after them. The expences are. 



Digging, 2/. 



Weeding, &c. i^s. 



Taking up, i { d. per bufliel. 



Marie is their chief manure j they have 



it brown, red, blue, and alfo /liell marie. 



They lay two fquare roods and an half ^^r 



U 3 acre. 



