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LETTER XL 



WILLIAM DANBY, Efquire, of 

 Su'hitoji^ has enabled me to give 

 the following account of the hufbandry 

 about that place. 



The foil confifts chiefly of loam and gra- 

 vel ; lets from 8 J. to 25 J. /i^r acre. (Thefe 

 are the old lands, not the moorfide farms ; 

 of them hereafter.) 



Farms rife from 5 /, to 40 /. a year, fome 

 few of 60/. Their courfes are, 



I. Fallow — 2. Wheat — 3. Beans. 



Another : 



I. Fallow — 2. Wheat — 3. Oats. 



Another : 



I. Fallow — 2. Barley — 3. Turnips. 

 This is the cart before the horfe. 



For wheat they plough four or five times, 

 fow from nine to eleven pecks, about Mi- 

 chaelmas^ and reckon the average crop two 

 quarters and a half. They plough three 

 times f^.r barley, fow from 10 to 12 pecks 

 in Aprily and gain at a medium the fame 

 quantity as of wheat. For oats they give 

 but one ftirring, fow four bufhels and a 

 half in March^ and reckon the mean crop 



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