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30 to 4c. They give four earths for rye, 

 fow two bufhels, and gain 25 in return. 

 For oats, they flir but once, fow four 

 bufhels, and gain from 30 to 80. They 

 fow fome peafe, plough but once for them, 

 ufe four bufhels of feed and reckon from 

 15 to 20 about the mean produce. For 

 beans they likewife plough but once, fow 

 them broad-caft, four bufhels to the acre, 

 never hoe, and gain about the fame crop 

 as of peafe. Some few turnips are fown 

 upon the lands that are frefh burnt, plough 

 but once for them, never hoe, and eat 

 them with cows and fheep. They lime 

 their lands a good deal ; lay 64 bufhels 

 upon an acre, reckon that it lafts tw T o 

 years; the expence 20 s. The grand im- 

 provement which they practice on their 

 new land is paring and burning; they give 

 5 s. an acre for flubbing up the whins, 

 10 j. for paring, and 5 j. for burning, 

 They low clover on their barley lands, 

 mow it for hay, and get furprifing crops, 

 two load each mowing, and they fow 

 wheat after it. In a plough they ufe two 

 horfes double, ftir an acre a day. The pro- 

 duct of a cow they reckon at 3 or 4 /. 7 he 

 particulars of a farm I gained as follow, 

 80 Acres in all 40 Grafs 



40 Arable £. 30 Rent 



2 Horfes 1 Servants 



10 Cows 1 Labourer. 



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