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Leaving Crakchill^ my next route was to 



SlcningforH^ the feat of D alt on, Efq; 



who was fo oblignig as to favour me with 

 the following minutes. 



The foil about that place is a fliallow loam 

 on a limeflone. The arable lets at 6 s. and 

 the grafs at 9/; average about Sj. 



Farms are in general from 60 /. to 80 /. 

 The courles, 



J. Fallow — 2. Wheat — 3. Oats. 



And I. Fallow — 2. Wheat — 3. Barley — 



For wheat, they plough four times, fow 

 nine pecks, the time between Michaelmas 

 land Marfmmas, and reap upon an average 

 1^ bufhels. They plough twice for barley, 

 fow 10 pecks betv/een Lady-day and May- 

 dny\ the average produce two quarters and 

 an half. For oats they plough but once, fow 

 four bufhels before barley fowing, and -gain 

 about three quarters in return. They like- 

 wife give but one earth for peafe, low three 

 bufliels before oat fowing, and gain, upon 

 a medium, a quarter and an half. Mailin 

 they manage in the fame manner as wheat, 

 mix a peck of rye with a bullicl of wheat : 

 They have of late difcovercd an improve- 

 ment, which has been attefuled with infinite 

 advantages : It is the fowing their wheat 

 and maflin on the lime-llonc land in March: 

 Thcv do not find a fortnisii-ht difference in 

 the ripening between an autumnal and a 

 fpring iinving: But the crop of the Litter is 



much 



