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ploughed three times ; if it is quite clean* 

 only one ploughing and an half fuffice. 

 The wheat is fown broad- caft, 10 pecks 

 to the acre, and the medium crop four 

 quarters. For turnips he ploughs four or 

 five times, and hand-hoes them carefully 

 twice, by which management he raifes in- 

 finitely finer crops than any common ones 

 in York/hire. After thefe roots the land is 

 ploughed but once for barley ; four bufhels 

 per acre fown, and five quarters gained at 

 a medium in return. When oats are 

 thrown in, they receive three ploughings ; 

 four bufhels fown per acre, and four quar- 

 ters reaped. Clover he fows with both 

 wheat and barley; if the latter, in the 

 common way, but when with wheat, his 

 management is excellent. Jf the weather 

 is dry enough, he fows 16 lb. per acre in 

 the middle of March, and then harrows 

 the wheat thoroughly, and rolls it ; and fo 

 far is it from being of any damage to the 

 wheat, that it evidently forwards its 

 growth. 



Cabbages, his Lordmip ordered him to 

 cultivate according to the beft principles 

 of his method of hufbandry, and accord- 

 ingly he has planted feveral acres. He 

 fows the feed the latter end of February, 

 and if they run too faft, pricks them out 

 once before the tranfplantation, which is 



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