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And, I. Turnips — z. Barley — 3. Clover— 

 4. Wheat. 



The lail: is much the befl j fome of the 

 others are however good. 



They plough three times for v^heat, fow 

 ten pecks, a week before and a week after 

 Michaelmas ; and gain, upon an average, 

 20 buGiels. For barley, they ftir but once, 

 low ten pecks or thr^ee bufhels, generally 

 between the 5th and 20th oi Aprils and 

 reckon the medium crop at three quarters 

 and an half. They give but one ploughing 

 for oats, fow four bulhels, about the middle 

 of March y and gain 30 upon an average. 



For peafe, they likewife plough but once, 

 fow nine pecks, before barley fowing, and 

 gain 30 buiheis in return. 



For turnips they ftir three times, fow 

 them about the 22 d oi Jwie^ but never hoe; 

 the value they calculate on old land from 

 45 J-. to 3/. ; but, on new, from 3/. to 4/, 

 They ufe them for fheep and fatting bealts, 

 feed them off with the iirft, but draw and 

 lay them on grafs for the latter : No ftall 

 feeding. Their defence for not hoeing is 

 certainly of fome weight, — that the grafters 

 and butchers would not buy them; a perfon 

 in the neighbourhood who has purchafed 

 confiderable quantities, fufncient to feed 6co 

 fheep per amziim^ would accept none but the 

 unhoed ; he more than once viewed hoec| 

 crops, and rejected tbem, afferting that the 



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