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 and a half of hay per acre. A little buck, 

 wheat is cultivated for fwine. 



For potatoes they dig up grafs land, and 

 dibble in the fetts , get fine crops oF five 

 or fix hundred bufliels per acre ; and very 

 good wheat after them. 



Lime is their principal manure ; they 

 lay nine quarters per acre, at z s. a quar- 

 ter, befides leading ; they mix it with 

 dung, earth, cifr. 



Hollow draining is not uncommon in 

 this country ; they dig them from two to 

 four feet deep, generally until they come 

 to a bed of gravel : They fill them up 

 a foot deep with furnace, cinders, heath, 

 ling, &c. ^c. They are from four to 

 eight inches wide at bottom, and twenty 

 inches, or two feet, at top. 



Good grafs land letts from 20 s. to 40 s. 

 an acre. Moft of it is applied to feeding 

 covv^s, for fupplying Birmmgham with milk. 

 Many farmers manure it. The prodivift of 

 cows in that way amounts from 6 /. to 10/. 

 a cow J a middling one will give fix or 

 {^v^w gallons a day. The winter food is 

 hay alone, of which they cat in general 

 three hundred weight a week. The calves 

 do not fuck above two weeks : The fum- 



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