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and make of hats, boxes, bafkets, eW. a 

 large quantity annually; but not a great 

 number of hands are employed. From 

 this town to Wooburn, the foil is various; 

 chalk, clay, loam and fand. At Houghton 

 it is chalk on the high grounds,, and a 

 black clay in the low lands. The farms 

 are in fize from 50/. to 3 /.a year; land 

 lets about 14^. an acre: Their courfe in 

 general is, 



1. Fallow 4. Turnips 



2. Wheat 5. Barley 



3. Peafe and beans, 

 or oats, 



They plough three times for wheat, fow 

 two buihels, and reap upon a medium 

 about 15 bufhels. For barley they plough 

 twice, fow three buihels of feed, and reckon 

 23 a middling crop. They likewife ftir 

 twice for oats, fow 2'- bufhels, which is 

 very little, and get on an average 3^ quar- 

 ters in return ; 24 buihels a middling crop. 

 For peafe and beans mixed they plough 

 twice, fow three buihels, and get on an 

 average 32 in return. When beans alone, 

 they ftir twice, fow fome broad caft, and 

 fome after the plough ; 24- buihels per acre, 

 but never hoe; twenty-five buihels the 

 medium produce. They give two tilths 

 for turnips, hoe them twice, and always 

 feed off with fheep. So few for this crop 

 cannot be too much condemned. They 



plough 



