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In an excurfion I made from Rtjby^ into 

 Holdernefsj T took minutes of the prefent 

 ftate of that large trad of country, fome 

 of which I mall here lay before the 

 reader. 



The foil is in general clay ; the rent 

 from 10 s. to 2 5 s. an acre, that of cars, 

 (marfhes) from 6 s. to iox, The farms 

 rife from 20 /. a year to 200 /. but chiefly 

 about 100 /. As to courfes, in the open 

 fields they run a crop to a fallow, but in 

 the inclofures, four crops to a fallow with 

 clover. 



For wheat, they plough four or five 

 times, but only once after clover, fow two 

 bufhels per acre, and reap at a medium, 

 four quarters. For barley, they ftir four 

 times if fallowed; twice after turnips, fow 

 three bufhels per acre, and gain five quar- 

 ters in return. They itir but once for oats, 

 fow four bufhels, and reap five quarters. 

 For beans they give but one ploughing, 

 fow three bufhels and an half, and gain 

 four quarters. For rape they generally 

 pare and burn, and plough once, but fome- 

 times after oats, when they likewife give 

 but one ploughing ; fow a peck an acre, 

 and gain upon average, five quarters. 



An acre and a half or two acres of grafs, 

 they reckon fufficient to fat an ox of 80 

 ftone. In rearing their calves, they give 



them 



