264. CASTLE LLOYD. 



They do not plough the potatoe land for 

 here at all, but trench it in with fpade and 

 fhovel, fow fix bufhels an acre, and get 20 

 barrels, at 75. on an average. They then 

 plough once for oats, fow fix bufhels, and get 

 1 6 to 20 barrels, worth 45. a barrel on a me- 

 dium, at 12 (tone. The fecond crop of oats 

 is as good as the firft. In the gentleman's 

 courfe the wheat is trenched in if the feafon is 

 wet, but ploughed in if it is dry ; twenty ftone 

 of feed per acre, the product ten barrels, at 

 20 ftone, and the price 2os. Plough twice 

 for the Englifh barley $ fow five or fix bufhels 

 per acre, and get 20 barrels, 17 ftone per bar- 

 rel, at 8d. a ftone. No lime, marie, or lime- 

 ftone gravel ufed, nor clover, peafe, beans, 

 or turnips fown ; but enough flax is fown by 

 every poor family for their own ufe ; and fome 

 fell it at fairs, after fcutching, at 45. to 55. a 

 ftone. There are many weavers about the 

 country, who make handle cloth, and fome a 

 yard wide, for the poor people ; they live both 

 in towns and villages. All the women fpin 

 flax. They fhut up their fields for hay the be- 

 ginning of June, generally mow in September, 

 the crop three to four tons an acre, fometimes 

 five or fix. It is fold {landing for 405. an acre. 



Tillage is done with horfes, four in a plough, 

 and do half an acre a day, four or five inches 

 deep j the price 78.^ to los. In hiring and 

 ftccking they reckon that 3l.,an acre will do 

 for a grazing farm, but much lefs for tillage. 

 Leafes are for thirty-one ye^rs or three lives. 



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