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to more than the whole quantity produced in 1801 ; " it is only of late 

 years that wheat, potatoes, rye-grass, and clover have been intro- 

 duced, and rape has already obtained much repute." Great quantities 

 of potatoes were raised and used by the families and given to 

 horses, cows, and pigs — the remainder being sent to market. The 

 land was so good after the potatoes were removed from the ground, 

 that wheat was immediately sown. For oats the land was ploughed 

 immediately preceding the sowing, though a few ploughed it in August 

 or September for the following spring. The rotation was oats, oats, 

 barley or fallow. Wheat was sown from 20th September to the 20th 

 October; oats, peas, and beans from the 20th March to the end of 

 April ; potatoes from 20th April to the middle of May ; turnips and 

 rape from 20th June to 3rd of July. 



The seasons of 1800 and 1801 were the best ever remembered. 



Robinson gave the agricultural statistics of the parish in detail as 

 great as that adopted by the Board of Agriculture for the whole 

 country nearly a century later. 



