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Hoeing turnips, 4 s. to 5 s. 

 Ditching 24 yards, from 8 d. to 20 d. 

 Threfrung wheat, 2 s. a quarter. 



— fpring corn, 1 s. id. 



It is a common practice around Gran- 

 tham, to pare and burn their old turf when 

 they convert it into arable land. The 

 operation cofts about twenty millings an 

 acre. 



Mr. Middlemore, at a farm about three 

 miles from that town, has for fome years 

 tried a feries of experiments on many acres 

 of land, a complete regifter of which would 

 undoubtedly be highly acceptable to the 

 Public. The following particulars I gained 

 of his bailiff, as he is himfelf abroad. 

 Near the farm-yard he has a clofe of about 

 three acres with lucerne ; a rood was trans- 

 planted in rows two feet fix inches afunder, 

 laft March twelvemonth ; it was cut but 

 once laft year, once this year, and I found 

 the plants about 18 inches high: They 

 were for their age fine and vigorous, but 

 many of them had failed, and the intervals 

 were quite overrun with weeds, infomuch 

 that I wondered at the luxuriance of the 

 plants while fo furrounded. The reft of 

 the clofe is broad-caft, feven years old : It 

 has been always cut three times a year ; 

 once this year, and when I faw it, was two 

 feet high, in bloffom, and very thick, but 

 had many weeds among it. It had been 

 G 4 always 



