230 JOHNSTOWN. 



The culture has increafed very much,and been 

 the means of reclaiming great tracls of land, 

 which otherwife would never have been touch- 

 ed. The potatoe land they plough immediate- 

 ly for bere, and, if weather dry enough, fow 

 14 ftone per acre, and get 16 barrels. For the 

 wheat they plough thrice ; fow in November 

 14 ftone, and get 7 barrels. 



It was in this neighbourhood Mr. Yelverton 

 had his famous crop, which has been written 

 fo often in all the books of hufbandry in Eu- 

 rope, but nobody here believed it. The ac- 

 count I had was this : that he felecled the beft 

 acre in a field of 30, which he marked out; 

 but his labourers knowing his intention, put 

 many flocks from the adjacent parts of the 

 field into that acre. Thus without any in- 

 tentional deceit in the gentleman himfelf was 

 the public completely deceived. From hence 

 it appears, there was fome reafon in my pro- 

 pofing to the London fociety, to annex to their 

 premiums for the greateft crops, the condition 

 of reaping, threfhing, and meafuring all in one 

 day, and in the prefence of witnefles which 

 they adopted much againft the opinion of fe- 

 veral gentlemen who did not approve it. 



For the oats they plough once, fow two 

 barrels in March, and get on an average from 

 10 to 14. For the peafe, they plough once, 

 fow twenty ftone broad caft, are fo far from 

 hoeing or weeding, that they like to have weeds 

 among them, by way of Jllcks ! get fix or feven 



barrels 



