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twice or thrice by May, and then to burn what 

 the harrow does not reduce. For wheat they 

 plough once, as before-mentioned in the burn- 

 ing courfe; and four times on a fallow. Sow 

 20 ftone to an acre ; the crop five to fix and a 

 half barrels ? the medium price of late il. is. 

 a barrel. They fow a barrel of bere, of fix- 

 teen ftone, the crop 14 to 23 barrels, which 

 great produce is from the rich preparation. 

 Of oats two barrels, or 24 ftone, the crop i o 

 to 1 6 ; of barley they fow 1 6 ftone, the crop 

 10 to 1 6. The price of bere and barley 95. 

 6d. No clover at all fown, nor any grafs feeds, 

 and very few peafe or beans, as they never 

 feed their pigs or horfes with either. Very 

 little flax. There are a few bleach yards about 

 Clara, &c. but the bufinefs is not much upon 

 the increafe. Potatoes they plant in the com- 

 mon trenching way ; the feafon from the mid-, 

 die of April to the middle of May j more after 

 the firft of May than before it j eight barrels 

 plant an acre ; they always weed them. The 

 apple fort is preferred from lafting longeft; 

 the medium price 2d. a ftone j twenty ftone 

 the barrel. 



Account of an acre. 

 Planting, 48 men, the firft and fccond trenching 



at 8d. i 12 o 



Seed, at 35. 4d, * | 6 6 



Taking up, 4$ men I 120 



Picking up, carrying home, and forting ; horfe- 



hire only, as the family does the reft - 088 

 Kent -. - -660 



