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Labourer's houfe rent, 25/. 

 ■ firing, 20 x. 



The road from Neivurk to Tuxfird is 

 excellent, and very well kept. The pac- 

 tice of ploughing on to broad -arched lands* 

 continues yet on all but the lighted foils ; 

 but the farmers in this long tracl of coun- 

 try have little idea of draining off the water 

 which lodges in the deep furrows ; a cir- 

 cumftance of very bad management. 



At IVefl-Drayton I was fortunate enough 

 to meet with a very intelligent occupier, 

 who gave me a clear and confident ac- 

 count of the hufbandry of that neighbour- 

 hood. The foil is a rich fandy gravel ; 

 the arable lets from ioj-. to 12 s. an acre, 

 and the grafs from 15 s. to 20 s. The 

 farms are not large, being in general from 

 40 /. to 100/. a year. Their principal 

 courfe is, 



1. Turnips 3. Clover one year 



2. Barley 4. Wheat 



which, for land rich enough for wheat, and 

 light enough for turnips, is an excellent 

 courfe. They lay ail their dung upon their 

 turnip land, but never mix it with turf or 

 clay. They very often lime their lands "for 

 all forts of crops ; fow four quarters on an 

 acre ; which coft 1 s. 10 d. per quarter, and 

 the carriage they reckon as much more 1 ; 

 but it lafts only one year. Sometimes they 

 pare and burn the old fward, which is 

 XI 2 done 



