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1763. 



This was a bufy year ; for two fields were 

 added to the cultivated lands, both well 

 incloicd with walls : One of 20 acres was 

 part of the word land of the whole farm ; 

 all a rotten black peat earth, over-run with 

 tough ling and many ftones ; and what was 

 worfe, much of it very wet. It was a dif- 

 ficult bufinefs to prepare this field for par- 

 ing and burning ; but fome well-executed 

 drains were formed, and the whole pared 

 and burnt, and four chaldrons per acre of 

 lime fpread with the afhes, and then plough- 

 ed, and turnip-feed harrowed in. The crop 

 very good, worth 50 j-. an acre. 



The other piece improved this year was 

 18 acres of the beft fort of land: It wa^ 

 walled in, and then pared and burnt, and 

 four chaldrons per acre of lime fpread, and 

 14 acres of it fown with turnips, and four 

 planted with the large Scotch cabbage : The 

 latter managed in all refpedts as the crops 

 already regiftered at Danby ; they came to 

 1 1 lb. per cabbage, on an average. The tur- 

 nips a fine crop, worth 3 /. per acre ; but 

 much inferior in value to the cabbages. 



This year the fixtecn acres of grais 

 were much improved : An acre and a half 

 were found fufficient for fummer-feeding 

 a cow. 



The 20 acres turned up in 1759 were 

 now in grais for the firft year : The herbage 



