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Tlie average crops are. 



Of wheat, three quarters and a half. 

 Of barley, five. 

 Of oats, five. 

 Of peafe, two and a half. 

 Of beans, three. 

 They plough three times for turneps, 

 hand hoe twice, and are worth, upon a 

 medium, 3 ox. an acre. 



Their flocks of {heep rife from loo to 

 1400 ', the profit they reckon at 7 or 8i. 



In their tillage they ufe four, horfes at 

 length, and do an acre a day; eight or nine 

 neceiTary for one hundred acres of arable 

 land. Some farmers break up their bub- 

 bles for a fallow before winter, but moflly 

 in fpring. The price of ploughing is ys. td. 

 an acre, and the- depth four or five inches. 



The following particulars of farms will 

 fhew the general oeconomy of this country, 

 200 acres in all 

 140 arable 

 6 c grafs 

 /. 200 rent 

 1 2 horfes 

 16 cows 

 4c o flieep 

 20 young cattle 



3 men 



