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 pofc ; he would chule to fill them all with 

 llonc, many do it with fmall faggoting, 

 others withfods, the grafs-fide downwards, 

 cut hke a wedge ; this latter is what is com- 

 monly uled, but he has found by experience 

 they foon decay. Bean-ftraw, or any ftraw, 

 is laid upon the flones, before the drains are 

 filled up. Expence, 3^. and 3t^- a rood 

 for digging, 2 J. a. rood for filling w4th 

 flone, and filling up the level, st^. for 

 leading and getting of ftone, if it is got out 

 of a quarry ; it will be lei's, if the flone is 

 got upon the land. 



Mr. Scroope has always kept to the Hol- 

 dcrnefs and Dicicb breed of horned cattle ; 

 he has hid oxen of 135 ftone, 14//^. to the 

 ftone ; he generally fells his three year olds, 

 after wintering, at 21 /. and 22/. per beaft; 

 gives his calves new milk for two months, 

 then old milk and bean-meal till they are 

 turned to grafs, or feed them with good 

 lettuce, lucerne, ^c. He has found that one 

 acre of good turnips v^'lll keep 20 iheep the 

 winter, but that one acre of cabbages will 

 keep above ^o. The weight of his wool, pej- 

 iheep, generally runs to 12 or 14/^. chat 

 are fat, the firft year clip 10 //;. 



This gentleman's method of laying 

 arable to Q-rafs, is iirfl to reduce the moulds 

 as fine as pofTible by a fallow, fowing it 

 down with barley or bigg, tlie latter he 

 would chufe in moor foils; after the corn is 



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