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In the parifh of Bend/worth are, 

 1 500 acres 

 1 4 farms 

 80 horfes 

 I 20 cows 

 1000 fheep 

 ^. 1 000 rent, (befides that of houfes) 

 jf. 200 rates 

 600 labourers. 



The following experiments and remarks 

 of Mr. William Pemiyy who keeps the Inn 

 at Bendfwo7-thy are much worthy of notice. 

 He is very fenfible and intelligent. 



In the pla?iti??g of wheat he made this 

 trial : Upon a loamy foil, a mixture of clay 

 and fand, he fet a peck of wheat on the 

 third of an acre, in rows, nine inches aftin- 

 der, and fix inches from grain to grain : 

 The land had been well fallowed : The 

 crop was neither hand hoed nor hand 

 weeded : Produce thirty-four pecks ; but 

 there being a path acrofs the field, wafted 

 a fifth : Total, therefore forty pecks, or, 

 per acre, thirty bufhels. This is a very 

 great produce from fo fmall a quantity of 

 feed, and proves much in favour of the ad- 

 vocates for thinner feeding than common. 



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