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Threfhing wheat, 10 d. the load of three 



buihels. 

 barley, fee* u. /\d. a quarter. 



About York I remarked large quantities 

 of potatoes planted in the open fields. 

 Beans, potatoes, and clover, they reckon 

 a fallow, and fow winter corn after the 

 latter two ; fixty buihels they reckon a 

 middling crop ; they plant generally in 

 rows, two feet afunder, and earth them 

 up by hand hoes. The fields in which 

 they are fet, let at about 1 2 s. an acre. 



I omit fpeaking of the city of York at 

 prefent, as I purpofe returning to it in 

 the race week, and expect then to view the 

 public buildings with greater advantage. 

 I took the road to Beverly. 



About Wilbersfort, the foil is general 

 clay and fome iandy loams, the commons 

 let at 5 s. an acre, the held lands at 10 j» 

 and the grafs inclofures at 20 s. This plain 

 ltate of the rents fhew what great improve- 

 ments might be made, an advance from 5 j*, 

 to 20 s. Farms from 20 /. to 60 /. a year* 

 Their courle 



1. Fallow 



2. Wheat or rye, or barley 



3. Oats or beans. 



They plough four times for wheat, foW 

 ten pecks, and reap at a medium 30 

 buihels. For barley, they plough five 

 times, low three buihels, and reap from 



