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to oats, fow four bulliels, and gain about 

 thirty. They fow but few beans, their me- 

 thod is to plough once, fow five or fix 

 bufliels broad-caft, never hoe them, the 

 crop three quarters ; ufe them for hogs and 

 horfes. For peafe they plough but once, 

 fow ten pecks, never hoe ; the average 

 produce 1 5 or 1 6 hufhels. They give four 

 ploughings for rye, fow fix or feven pecks, 

 and reap about three quarters and an half. 

 As to turnips they cultivate fo few, that no 

 general account can be given of them^ 

 Clover they fow with barley, and mow the 

 firfl crop ; of which they get about two tons 

 of hay : Wheat fucceeds it. 



Their manuring confifts chiefly of the 

 dung arillng from their farm-yard, but they 

 never litter it with chopt Hubble, holding it, 

 like their neighbours of Newton, better to 

 leave on the land than convert into manure. 

 They carry their dung direcStiy from tho. 

 yard on to the land without laying in 

 heaps. Of lime, they ufe large quantities, 

 iay three chaldrons (at 7 s, each) per acre on 

 their fallows, in yune or J^fy^ every third 

 year. It does much good on liraeflone land, 

 but more on clay. 



Good grafs lets at 10 s. an acre ; tliey 

 ufe it chiefly for dairying and breeding ; 

 a cow requires two acres for her fummer 

 food ; and yields about 5 /. per ammm pro- 

 duct, In the height of the feafon a good 

 F 3 one 



