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LETTER XVI. 



A T Go/worthy in the road to Morpeth, the 

 -**• foil is chiefly loamy — part fandy, and 

 but little clay; the average rent is about 

 20 s. an acre; farms rife from 50/. a year to 

 400 /. Their courfes are, 



1. Fallow And, 1. Fallow 



2. Wheat 2. Maflin 



3. Oats. 3. Oats. 

 Another, Alfo, 



1. Fallow i. Turneps 



2. Wheat 2. Barley 



3. Beans. 3. Oats. 



For wheat they plow five times, fow two 

 bufhels about Michaelmas, and reap, upon an 

 average, ten or twelve thrave, each thrave 

 two flooks, or fix pecks, that is, fixteen 

 bufhels and an half. For barley they plow 

 on ftubble three times, after turneps twice, 

 and on a fallow five times ; fow two bufhels 

 and an half in April, and reap fifteen thraves, 

 at two bufhels, or thirty bufhels. For oats 

 they give but one plowing, fow two bolls and 

 a canning, or four bufhels and an half, after 

 barley, and gain in product much the fame 

 quantity as of that grain *. They plow but 



* I have, for once, given the jargon of country 

 meafures ; a vile abufe, that calls aloud for red re fs.— 

 You (hall be plagued with them no more. 



once 



