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 They reckon the midfu miner dun fort to 

 yield bcft; a middling crop is 250 bufhels 

 upon an acre; they always manure for them, 

 either with dung or allies, about 20 load, 

 but afhes they prefer. This on a iandy foil 

 is, I think, very extraordinary. The price 

 varies from 1 s, A^d. to 2 s, a bufhel. 



Of onions, they fow vaft quantities ; — 

 the time, about a fortnight before Lady 

 Day ; they hoe and weed them always five 

 times at the expence of four pounds an 

 acre, fet them out fix inches afunder, and 

 their crops rife to above 200 bufhels, but 

 their price from 16 d. (which is very low) 

 to 2 s. They always manure for them 

 with great care. Thefe gardeners give 

 from 40 s. to 5 /. rent per acre, for their 

 land; it is, as I before obferved, a rich 

 loofe black fand of a good depth, and very 

 favourably protected from adverfe winds by 

 feveral considerable hills. It is a remark- 

 able, and a very pleafing fight, to behold 

 crops of onions, potatoes, French beans, 

 and even whole fields of cucumbers, inter- 

 mixed with crops of wheat, barley, tur- 

 nips, &c. 



It may not be unentertaining, to calcu- 

 late the profit thefe gardeners make by the 

 preceding crops, and nrrl with carrots ; 

 the expences per acre we may fuppofe as 

 follow : 



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