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Potatoes they plant on grafs without dung, a 

 gogd crop, 60 barrels to an acre, at 8s. a 

 barrel average. When they hire it they pay 

 fix guineas an acre; they dung tillage land 

 and poor lays for them. Of wheat they fow 

 a barrel an acre, and the crop in general eight 

 to ten of thofe barrels. Oats they fow two to 

 an acre, and get twelve to fixteen. The low 

 bottoms of moory and rufliy kind they plough, 

 and burn the furrows ; upon that burning 

 they plough in the afhes and harrow in rape 

 feed, a pottle, or three qiiarts to an acre ; ne- 

 ver feed, but keep it for feed, and get eight 

 Briftol barrels a.n acre ; it fells ufually at 143. 

 to i8s. a barrel; they fow here afterwards, the 

 produce ten barrels an acre ; then a crop of 

 pats, twelve to fixteen barrels, and then leave 

 it to lay. No grafs feecls fown, 



Farms rife from 40 acres to 2000!. a year ; 

 fome few of the little ones are taken by cot- 

 tars, in partnerfhip, but not common ; tr>e 

 large farms are all flock ones. Turnips have 

 been fown many years, but by few ; a little 

 on pared and burnt land in the bottoms, in- 

 ftead of rape ;' the crops very large; they 

 give them all to. fat fheep, in order to keep 

 their fleiri for a better market after Chriftmas ; 

 it is found to be a very advantageous practice, 

 but not increafmg. No hoeing. Hemp is 

 fown a little by the Palatines, but by few 

 others. Flax, by every cabbin, in order for a 

 little fpinning for their own ufe. 



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