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 fecond, ffom angle to angle *,and harrowing 

 after each, fows in September^ or as foon 

 &s polTible in 05iohcr^ and gets 30 huflicls 

 on an acre in general, better in quality than 

 the common ; he ploughs as often for bar- 

 ley, unlefs after turnips or cabbages, and 

 fows two bufhels of feed; fows it the latter 

 end of March or early in Jlpril^ and gene- 

 rally reaps five quarters. He fows the North 

 Frizeland kind of oats, three or three and 

 an half buihels to an acre, in March^ and 

 gains 50 bufhels or better upon good loam, 

 and has had 80 buihels per acre. 



He ploughs three times for beans ; fows 

 three buihels, or 3 ~ broad-caft in Februafyy 

 and gains from 28 to 35 bufhels ; foldoni 

 cultivates any peafo, unlefs to plough in 

 for manure, and then fows three bufliels in 

 February. Gives the fame earths for rye 

 as for wheat, gains from 40 to 50 bufhels 

 per acre, and which weighs three or four 

 pounds more a bufliel than the common ; it 

 is little ufed, as the poor people will fcarcely 

 buy it. 



For turnips he ploughs five times, hoes 

 them in Jwie^ July^ and Aiiguji^ and values 

 them from 4/. to 5/. per acre, ufes thcin 



* This is an excellent praclicc, but not fo common 

 as it oucjht, though recommended by Virgil: 

 Et prod [Jo qua fufcitat esquore terga^ 

 ^urfus in ohliquu?n verfo perrunipit arairo. 



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