6i THE PRATICE OF THE 



4 * this being regularly planted, and hand* 

 " hoed, without dung, and the other fowed 

 at random, and dunged (as they always are 

 44 once in three years): the fallowing and 

 ' ploughings of both were the fame. Mine 

 " was laid by feveral of the farmers of the 

 *' place to be the beft land of wheat in the 

 46 parifh. 



44 This indeed otight to be allowed, that 

 < c mine being moftly 'white cone wheat, and 

 44 the adjoining lands of clean lammas^ might 

 44 make fome part of the difference ; but there 

 < 4 being fome of the fame fort of lammas 

 ' amongft this cone, it was obferved to be as 

 44 high as the cone, and the ears of it to be 

 '* of double the bignefs of thofe in the conti- 

 44 guous fown lands. 



44 As to the acre of horfe-hoed wheat, it 

 44 was mcafured eight perches broad, and 

 44 twenty long, which is equal to fixty-fix 

 44 feet in breadth, and fix hundred and fixty 

 44 in length, this being the ftatute meaiure of 

 44 an acre, and we ufe no other for land in 

 44 this country. 



* This acre being laid by itftlf, was, after 

 " fome time threfhed, and yielded twenty - 

 44 nine bumels and fix gallons of clean 

 44 wheat. 



44 Before it was threfhed, it was fomewhat 

 " diminimed by cows that found a hole betxixt 

 ** the boards of the barn, and pulled out fome 

 44 of it ; and poultry eat more of it ; but the 



" moft 



