2,-* WOLDS. 



20. 



Vir. OBJECTS OF HUSBANDRY, i. STOCK, 

 principally, Jbeep and rabbits. Few cattle^ 

 except what are purchafed in autumn tor the 

 purpofe of railing manure, being Ibid off in 

 the fpring j chiefly to the graziers of Lin- 

 colnihire. Some borfes are bred ; but the 

 more general practice is to buy in colts at a 

 year old, and keep them until they be three 

 or four j felling them at that age to country 

 Dealers; or keep them till five years old, 

 and make them up for the hcrfe-:'ho\vs, 

 1, CROPS. Principally oats ; but much bar- 

 ley and fomep^j are grown ; and, in the val- 

 lies, wbeat. But, upon the high wolds, the 

 largeft farmers, until of late years, bought 

 their bf^&cbrlL The old turf, when new- 

 ly brc" -menfe crops of 



pats; and h., I believe, in ge-ceral, equally 

 productive of rape. Juflances arc mentioned, 

 in which the fjf r crop of rape has H 



clover, zndjc:intfc;3j are alfo Wold-crops. 



VIII. SUCCESSION. No regular f) item of 

 inanagement, with refpedt to the fuccefficn 

 pf crops and fallow, is in any part of the 



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