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For beans, they plough hut once in ge- 

 neral, fometimes however twice, low four 

 bulhels ; never hoe them : The mean crop 

 30 bufhels ; ufe them for both horfes and 

 hogs. For peafe, they give the fame tillage 

 as for beans, fow three bulhels, and gain 

 20 or 30 in return. They cultivate fome 

 rye, generally on a barley ftubble, plough 

 but once, fow two bufhels and a peck, and 

 reckon the produce on an average, at 27 

 bulliels. 



They give five earths for turnips ; never 

 hoe them in common ; but reckon the 

 average value per acre at 4 /. They ufe 

 them for fheep, beafts and calves ; the firft 

 cat them off the land, but ihey are drawn 

 for the two laft. 



They prepare for rape, by paring and 

 burning ; they plough for it once ; never 

 feed it ; the mean crop per acre of the 

 feed four quarters. They fow wheat 

 after it. 



Clover 16 very little known ; but ^vhen 

 accidentally fown, it is with barley ; they 

 mow the firft crop, get above a ton of hay 

 per acre, and feed it afterwards. It has 

 been in ufe thefe 30 years, till the land, 

 fome farmers think, is almoft* tired of it ; 

 and confequcntly better to lay it afide for 

 fome time in the old land. Then throw a 

 chaldron of lime per acre, and break it up 

 O 4 for 



