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parcel of labourers will take i or 200 acres. 

 The common courfe of tillage is, 



i. Pare, and burn for turnips. 2. Turnips. 

 3. Potatoes. 4. Bere. 5. Wheat. 6. Oats. 

 7. Grey peafe. 8. Fallow. 9. Wheat. 10. 

 Oats. "n. Lay out for grafs quite exhaufled. 

 Alfo, 



i. Fallow turnips from the turf. 2. Tur- 

 nips, and then as before. 



The management is to plough the fod at 

 Chriftmas, in April or May crofs plough it, 

 and let it dry, burn as foon as dry, which 

 will be fometimes in May ; fpread the afhes, 

 plough once, and harrow in a pound and a 

 half or two pounds of feed to the acre, from 

 the 20th of June to the 4th of Auguft. They 

 never either hoe or weed. Begin to feed them 

 upon the land in December with fat ftieep, 

 giving three or four acres at a time to 2 or 

 300 fheep ; and one acre to loofheep, giving 

 them at the fame time hay in fheep racks : a 

 middling acre will keep 1 3 from Chriftmas to 

 the firft of April, being worth from two gui- 

 neas to 3!. They are alfo commonly ufed for 

 fheep and lambs in March and April. The 

 profit upon fat fheep, from turnips only, will 

 amount to from 75. to IDS. a head. The land 

 is ploughed three times for the feccnd crop ; 

 but the turnips are not fo fweet forYheep 

 as the ftrft, yet they fell as well : they muft 



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