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improvement of which was fo manifeft, 

 that his neighhours followed the example ; 

 whoever brought away manure for many 

 years, were paid for taking it; 25 years 

 ago, it was to be had for 6d. to 1 s. a. 

 load, but the country around by degrees, 

 all coming into the practice, the price has 

 arofe to its prefent height ; extraordinary 

 good fluff will fell for 5.C a load. 



They are very fenfible of the benefit of 

 folding their Iheep ; their folds rife from 

 120 to 200. 



Scarce any paring and burning. Their 

 farm -yard manure is carefully fpread on 

 the foil, but never mixed with earth. 



There are fever warrens in this neigh- 

 bourhood, which (like thofe I mentioned 

 on the other fide of Beverley J appear from 

 the luxuriance and verdure of the grafs, 

 and from the multiplicity and height of the 



thirties, to be excellent land indeed, the 



foil muft be naturally good, or it could not 

 yield fuch a fpontaneous growth : But yet 

 thefe large tra&s of country are fuffered 

 to remain in their prefent ftate, which is 

 comparatively that of waftcs, to what they 

 might eafily be converted to : Their rents 

 are about 6 s. an acre ; and when I en- 

 quired the reafon of not turning them into 

 arable farms, I was told that the farmers 

 would not give above qs. or 10 s. an acre 

 for a few years, after which the rent would 



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