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and carnage of it coft about thirty {hillings 

 per boat load j ploughing, burning, harrow- 

 ing, lowing, cutting, &c. about four guineas 

 per acre. Rent of the land thirty (hillings an 

 acre. In 1775 Mr. Wyfe ploughed feven 

 acres, which he prepared in the fame manner 

 (except fanding) and fovved it with rape ; it 

 grew very well till the great froft and fnow 

 fell, which, was remarkably fevere, and which 

 injured it very much, together with the moif- 

 ture of the ground, occafioned by fprings in 

 the land, and heavy rains, which fucceeded 

 the froft and fnow j the produce per acre, 

 about half the quantity of the former year -, 

 fold at the fame price. Mr. Wyfe recom- 

 mends narrow ridges for low moid ground. 

 He thinks a large quantity of afhes to be a 

 chief means of enfuring a plentiful crop. The 

 land does not require manure after rape for 

 wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, &c. but will 

 not anfwer for a fecond crop of rape. 



Mr. Bolton, junior, having mentioned a 

 neighbour of his, who had drawn up a me- 

 moir upon making cyder, from confiderable 

 experience, at my requeft wrote ; to him for a 

 copy of it, which I have fince received, with 

 his permiflion to infert it in this work. 



The following is an abridgment of the 

 .account. 



" Let apples of every fpecies hang till they 

 are ripe, and begin to drop $ let them be ga- 

 thered 



