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 Marquis of Rockingham* is coming into 

 practice, infomuch that many farmers now 

 hoe their crops, who formerly had fcarce 

 any notion of it. Perhaps a quarter or a 

 third of the crops are now hoed : They 

 reckoned the medium value of crops not 

 hoed at 20 s. an acre, and of thofe that are 

 hoed, at 40 s. a moff. ftriking proof of the 

 excellency of the practice : They ufe them 

 both for fheep and beafts, generally draw 

 them and r feed on paftures ; fometimcs in 

 fheds, and reckon that a middling acre of 

 hoed turnips will fat two beafts of fifty 

 ftone each ; that is finiih their fatting, if 

 half fat by grafs. They give both hay and 

 ftraw with them. Of rape the fow very 

 little; generally on frefh land, air' ^d it 

 off with fheep, fowing wheat 1 ter it. 



Clover they fow with barley, chiefly for 

 mnwing ; they cut it twice, and get three 

 tons of hay at the two mowings: They 

 find no crop whatever to anfwer better, 

 but fome land begins to grow tired of it, 

 the culture having been common thefe 40 

 years. The wheat they find better after 

 that which is mown, than that which is 

 fed. 



The management of their manure chiefly 

 confifts in the foddering their farm-yards 

 with the ftraw of the crop ; the excellent 

 cuftom of cutting ftubble for that purpoie 



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