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the crop be not so certain as on the hard land, yet in favourable seasons it will prove 

 very good, and at a much less expense, viz. 



Paring, or push-ploughing, per acre 



Burning _-«--" 



Ploughing _ _ - 



Seed and hoeing . - - - - 



Supposing barley to be taken after oats, the expense of preparing a customary 

 acre, upon the common hard land, will be nearly 



6 or about ^'y. per statute acre. 



If wheat be taken after a naked fallow, or, as it is called here, a summer workings 

 the expense of a customary acre will be nearly as follows : 



£. s. d. 



6 about £^9. the statute acre. 



Where a command of dung admits the practice, there can be no doubt but that 

 preceding the crop of wheat by potatoes would be as much for the advantage of the 

 farmer as the public ; since the potatoes would, in the first instance, repay, with 



• Upon the subject of manure there is a great difFerence, according to the nature of the soil. 

 After working the land into a fine tilth, by repeated ploughings, some soils will require very little 

 manure, whilst others will take nearly as much as for turnips or barley, 



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