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Fence walls, is, 6 d. per rood. 

 Houfe ditto, 3 j". 6 d. per rood. 

 Farm houfes of flone and Hate. 



But befides this common hufbandry, there 

 Is in this neighbourhood another, which is 

 that of the farms called the moor-fidc ones. 

 Thefe are tra£ts of land that haVe in procefs 

 of time been inclofed from the moors, and 

 thrown into fmall farms : But I fhould ob- 

 ferve, that fcarce any of the inclofures have 

 been made of late years j they are all old 

 farms. Many of them contain very large 

 fields of mxoorland, an hundred acres and 

 upw^ards in a field, that are all over-run 

 with ling, &c, &c. in as w^ild a flate as 

 any moor, and differing from it in nothing 



but in being inclofed and yet the 



jQovenly occupiers have fcarce any idea of 

 cultivating them.. 



The foil of thefe farms is various, but 

 confifts in general of light loams, fome fandy, 

 fome inclinable to gravel, and much of it 

 black moory earth reduced to loam by a 

 feries of culture. Their mananrement is in 

 general to change it from grafs to arable, 

 and the contrary, except the belt of the grafs 

 which is kept luch conftantly. Their me- 

 thod of breaking up is all by paring and 

 burning, which is done in common at the 

 expence of 16 j". 6ci. per acre. The firft crop 

 they take is turnips, which are worth upon 

 an average 40 s. an acre, but they are never 



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