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The improvement fketched in tliefe par- 

 ticulars, will be belt nnderftood by ftating, 

 in the next place, the common management 

 of the neighbourhood. 



Land lets from ii s. to 15^-. per acre; 

 farms are from 20/. to 60/. but fuch as 

 Nir, 'Turner has regulated from 80/. to 120/. 

 Their courfes are, 



I. Fallow — 2. Wheat — 3. Oats. 

 Another^ 



I. Fallow — 2. Wheat — 3. Peafc or beans. 

 Or, 



I. Fallow—- 2. Barley — 3. Oats. 



They plough five times for wheat, foW 

 two bufliels, and reap upon an average 20. 

 For barley they ftir fix or feven times, fow 

 two bufhels or 10 pecks, and gain five 

 quarters *. They give but one ploughing 

 for oats, fow four bufliels, and gain on an 

 average 5 quarters. For peafe and beans, 

 they flir but once, fow from four to five 

 buidiels, broad-caft, never hoe ; the crop 

 about 30 bufhels. Ufe them only for horfes. 

 They cultivate very few turnips, plough 

 three or four times, never hoc f. The value 



* No old land will grov/ barley nor oats, and till of 

 very late years they had no change in hufbandry in the 

 •whole country. 



f The Rev. Mr. TVilliamfon^ however, hoes twice, 

 and then v/eeds the ketlocks out. This gentlemaa 

 tried an experiment on the quantity of feed barley: one 

 bufiiel on one acre produced 34 bufhels; the reft of 

 the field two bufl;iels, produce 44 per acre. 



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