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 That gentleman's hufbandry is new, and 

 conduded upon excellent principles^ His 

 courle is, 



1. Potatoes 



2. Barley 



3. Clover, ray-grafs, and trefoil, eat 

 off with flieep one year, 



4. Wheat on one earth. 



He has tried peafe after the wheat, but 

 apprehends it to be a faulty cuftom. The 

 wheat in this courfe is fine ; he gets 20 

 bu(hels an acre upon land that never yielded 

 12 before. The barley is likewile very 

 good ; a quarter per acre, more than the 



farmers ever get after turnips. Th^ 



potatoes are managed as follows^ 



The wheat ftubble is ploughed up in 

 Oclober ; the beginning of Mo.rcL\ it is 

 i^i r red again ; thI Lady-day, harrowed with 

 heavy harrows. Then drills are made with 

 a common plough, 4 inches deep-; the dif- 

 tancc various in different helds, from 18 

 inches to three feet, for the fake of experi- 

 mentally knowing the belt ; but chiefly 

 three feet. The potatoe fets are then dropt 

 in whole, never fliced, but picked, fuch as 

 are feme what larger than a pigeon's tgg. 

 Then they are covered with dung, 10 cart 

 loads (25 bufhels each) per acre ; the more 

 rotten tlie better the crop : After this, the 

 plough covers them. When they appear in 

 rows, the ridges are harrowed down ; and in 



that 



