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Another : 



1. Fallow 3. Peafe and 



2. Wheat beans. 



Por wheat they plough four times, few 

 nine pecks, and reap from 18 to 22 bufhels: 

 For barley, after turnips once, fow two 

 builiels, and gain about four quarters. 

 They ftir but once for oats, fow four bufhels, 

 and gain large crops : their fort is the large 

 Dutch oat ; 40 bufhels is a common pro- 

 duce. Mr. Dicke?tfon had 72 bufhels after 

 turnips, on pared and burnt land. They 

 fow but few beans, plough but once for 

 them ; fow four bufhels and a half, fome- 

 times under furrow, and foraetimes over ; 

 never hoe ; the 'crop about 20 bufhels. 

 For peafe they plough but once, fow two 

 bufhels, and gain 16. For maflin, after 

 clover, they give but one flirring, fow two 

 bufhels, and reap at an average 25. They 

 flir but thrice for turnips, never hoe, and 

 value their crops at a medium at 3/. 10 J". 

 They ufe them for both fhdep and beafts ; 

 fome few farmers feed them off ; but gene- 

 rally draw them on to a grafs field for both 

 beaih and fheep. They fow rape on pared 

 and burnt land, but in no great quantities ; 

 fome feed it the latter end of the year, the 

 crop of feed about 25 bufhels: they fow 

 either maflin or oats after it. Clover they 

 fow with barley ; mov/ it once, but do not 

 get above 16 cwt. of hay per acre, on 



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