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icribed very deep ploughing as abfolutely 

 necefTary in all foils, are ftrangely mistaken. 

 It is much to be queftioned whether one 

 acre of wheat with two inches of plough- 

 ing in this country, docs not yield four 

 times as much as fuch writers have gained 

 with their inort philofophlcal condiwdi : — not, 

 however, that I plead for fliallow plough- 

 ing. 



The hire of a cart, three horfes, and a 

 driver, 5 J. a day. 



In the hiring and flocking of farms, their 

 ideas (peak a much more fpirited hulban- 

 dry than I have commonly met with. For 

 the flocking a farm of 500/. a year, con- 

 fiding of 500 acres, half grafs and half 

 arable, they calculate the following articles 

 necelTary. 



Twenty-fix horfes, at 15 /. jC 39^ 

 Twelve hundred fiieep, - 1200 

 Thirty cows, - - - - 240 

 Swine, - - , - - 10 

 Harnefs - - --_- ^5 

 Four waggons, one a broad 



\^ieel one, - - - - 100 

 Two broad wheel carts, - - 24 



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