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prehend, carried that branch of farm- 

 ing to its ne plus ultra : He was pleafed 

 to receive my enquiries with the utmoft 

 politenefs, and anfwered all my queflions 

 with the greateft candor. He has planted 

 them with great fuccefs three or four years, 

 but never before had fo large a crop as at 

 preier.t, upon three acres of land. 



The foil is a light Tandy loam, but very 

 rich, and fufficiently ftrcng to throw out 

 any crop that is fown in it ; it is not in 

 many places above fix or kvcn inches, 

 and in others eight or nine deep, before 

 the rag ftone appears, under which lies a 

 quarry of building (lone : This fandy loam 

 is in all feafons dry and healthy, and may 

 be ploughed foon after rain throughout 

 the whole winter. This and the adjoin- 

 ing fields could all be let at from 40 s. to 

 50 /. an acre. It bore wheat laft year; 

 was manured for the cabbages in the fame 

 manner as is ufual for turnips, about 10 

 loads of rich rotten dung per acre. The 

 wheat Hubble was turned up in the au- 

 tumn, and a part of the field, upon which 

 feven rows of the plants ftand, received 

 four plough ings more, before the cabbages 

 were let ; the reft of the field received five 

 and fix more. 



The feed from which thofe feven rows 



were planted, was fown the 16th of laft 



Augitft> pricked out of the feed-bed the 



I 3 middle 



