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nt three quarters. They give but one earth 

 for beans, few as much as of oats, the end 

 of February or the beginning of Marchy 

 broadcafh; never hoe; the crop two quarters ; 

 ufe them for horfes and hogs, and alfo grind 

 them into meal, for cows and fatting cattle. 

 They plough but once for peafe, fow nine 

 or ten pecks in March ; the crop the fame 

 as of beans. They give four or five earths 

 for rye, fow lo pecks, as foon as the wheat 

 is in the ground, and reap upon an average 

 20 bufhels. 



For turnips they give four ploughings, 

 fow them the end of May or beginning of 

 yune\ it is known among the farmers that 

 fuch a practice as hoeing exills, and fome of 

 them begin to talk a little of it, but very 

 few have pradlifed it. The average value 

 per acre 2 /. ioj'. They feed them off with 

 fheep, ufe them for milch cows, and the 

 finifhing fatting oxen that have had the 

 fummer's grafs. 



They plough once or twice for rape, fow 

 it the end oljiily^ never feed it ; the average 

 crop of feed four quarters : Sow wheat after 

 it. They knovv^ nothing of clover. 



In the management of their manure, they 

 are very little attentive to the raiung large 

 quantities in the farm-yard ; for they never 

 chop the ftubbles, and feed all their hay in 

 the fields. Their principal dependance is 

 upon lime, of which they lay from one to 



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