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in March ; the produce fix to twelve barrels, 

 and fometimes fixteen. Medium price for a 

 few years paft 6s. 6d. Upon fome grounds 

 that are light, are fubftituted peafe inftead of 

 oats after wheat. Plough but once, fow 20 

 Hone on an acre under furrow, never weed 

 them 5 the produce fix barrels per acre, and 

 the price los. No flax fown. 



Potatoes generally on a wheat flubble, al- 

 ways well dunged ; the ridge feven feet, and 

 the trench three feet wide, and to one perch in 

 length of it, four loads of dung. Ten facks, 

 at twenty ftone, plant an acre. March the bed 

 feafon; weed them, and get 100 facks, at the 

 medium price of 53. the white Englifh and 

 apple forts the beft. It is common for the 

 poor to hire grafs land to plant them on, at 

 61. to 61, 6s. an acre or for flubble land dung- 

 ed. 



Account of an acre. 



Planting - -200 



Seed - - 2 10 o 



Weeding - o 10 o 



Digging out - - -300 



Rent - - -600 



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