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 LABOUR. 



In harveft, 35 s. the month and board. 



In hay time, n.a day and victuals. 



In winter, from 8 d. to 1 s. a day, and no 



beer. 

 Reaping wheat, 5 s. 6 d. 

 Mowing corn, 1 s. 6 d. 



• Grafs, 2 s. and 2 s. 6d. 



The foil and management both changed 

 much for the better about Broughton : The 

 former is there various, but much of it 

 very excellent. Farms are from 100/. in 

 general to 200 L a year ; rents about 1 /. an 

 acre. 



1. Fallow 4. Turnips 



2. Wheat 5. Barley 



3. Beans 6. Clover 



This is an excellent courfe: For wheat 

 they ftir three or four times, low two 

 bufhels, and reap from 20 to 30. They 

 give the fame tillage for barley when on a 

 fallow which they manage excellently, for 

 they throw their fields on to the ridge to 

 lie dry in the winter, and then plough and 

 fow early in the fpring. Their quantity of 

 feed is five bufhels, and their mean crop as 

 many quarters. For oats they plough but 

 once, fow five bufhels, and gain in return 

 4'- quarters: They plough but once alfo 

 for the mixture of peafe and beans, fow 

 four bufhels, and reap 2~ quarters; nor 



four 



