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it all by degrees. Thefe acres were exceeding 

 iloney, fo that after a diviiion by walls built 

 out ot them, many remained ; one acre coft 

 him two months to clear and fill up the 

 holes. Some fingle flones required near a 

 week. Laborious as the work was, he com- 

 p'cted it by degrees, and pared and burnt 

 tlie foil : He threw thefe lands into a better 

 husbandry (though not totally defenfible) 

 than what he ufed before. His method was 

 to fow turnips upon the pared and burned 

 land, after liming two chaldrons per acre, 

 which coils, by the time it is on the land, 

 14 J-. kid. 2i chaldron. The turnips are ge- 

 nerally worth from 20 x. to 3 ox. an acre. 

 He draws and fcatters them on his grafs for 

 his cows and young cattle. 



After the turnips he ploughs four times, 

 lays on two chaldrons per acre more of lime, 

 and fows oats, eight bufhels per acre ; the 

 crop varies from 40 to 60 bufhels. 



After thefe oats, he fows four more fuc- 

 ceflive crops of them ; for each of which he 

 ploughs three or four times, and alfo limes 

 at the rate of two chaldrons per acre. The 

 average of thefe crops is 40 bufhels ^^r acre. 

 With the laft he lays down to grafs, by fow- 

 ing plenty of hay feeds. 



This has been his general courfe, but 

 fometimes he has fown rye, of which he 

 generally gets 32 bufhels per acre. Potatoes 

 he has regularly cultivated; fets them in rows 



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