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them for horfes, beafts and calves, and 

 fplit or ground for horfes and calves. They 

 plough once for peafe, fow four bufhels, 

 and 4r (never hoe them) in March, and 

 gain from 30 to 35 bulhels. They plough, 

 three times for rye, fow 2^ bufhels, and gain 

 from 40 to 50 bufhels per acre ; it is fowil 

 in Odiober, or fpring rye in March. For 

 turnips, they plough three times, never hoe 

 them, but value a crop from i /. ioj. to 3/; 

 fer acre, and ufe them for fheep, for oxen, 

 cows and calves. They pare and burn for 

 rape, and plough once after it ; fow it in 

 yuly and Augujl^ never feed it, but gain 

 from 40 to 50 bufliels an acre ; it is fuc- 

 ceeded by mailin, /. e. vv^heat and rye mixL 



They fow 12 pounds of clover on an 

 acre, with oats, barley or bigg, gain about 

 three tons of hay ; reckon they have better 

 crops after movving than feeding; many 

 keep it two or three years in mowing, and 

 generally fow wheat after it. 



In manuring, they lay three chaldrons of 

 lime (32 bufhels to the chaldroii), for which 

 they give 7 J-.; is. %d. a mile for leading, 

 and is.6d. an acre fpreading ; expence of 

 paring from lis. to 13 s. per acre, of burn- 

 ing, 3J-. 6d. ditto of fpreading, is. Sd. 



They f]:ack their hay in the fields, never 

 chop ftubbles, nor fold fheep except upon 

 turnips; of afnes they lay from 15 to 25 

 loads on an acre ; town dung on grafs and 



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