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PRODUCE. 



loo barrels, at 3$, 4d. 16 13 4 



xpcnces - - n 5 2 



Profit ^ - -582 



Prime coft, as. 3d. a barrel. A barrel will laft 

 a family of five perfons a week. 



The turnips on the burnt land they fow from 

 the 2oth of July to the 4th of Auguft, but 

 a fortnight or three weeks earlier upon a fal- 

 low, the quantity of feed iJ.lb. they never hoe; 

 the price upon an average 3!. an acre, either 

 to take away or feed on the land, but the for- 

 jner rarely done : they feed them off with fat 

 flieep or lambs, very rarely with black cattle. 



No lime burnt for manure, nor any 

 (lone gravel ufed, though plenty of it found 

 all the country through. One farmer made 

 an experiment of them both for corn, but nei- 

 ther anfwered j the general opinion is, its be- 

 ing bad for the grafs afterwards ; there is not 

 any marie known j the farm-yard fyftem in- 

 complete, as every where elfe, fpddering in the 

 fields ; but cows are kept in the houfe at night, 

 and fed with hay for about five months in the 

 winter. Their hay grounds they wifh to fliut 

 up about the 25th of March, but if their hay 

 is finifhed, they are obliged to be later -, mow 



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