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once for beans, few them bread -caft, and 

 under furrow, in February ; never hoe y the 

 medium crop about twenty-five bufhels. — 

 They are all ibid for the colliery horfes. For 

 peafe, but one earth, fow in March, and get 

 from fixteen to twenty buihels. For rye they 

 tallow three or four times ; but after barley 

 plow but once - 3 fow two bufhels, and gain 

 in return thirty. For turneps they ftir four 

 times; hoeing is but coming in, for many 

 do not practice it at all. The medium value 

 per acre is, for the hoed ones, 4/. 4/. the 

 unhoed, 3/. an argument fo ftrong for hoe- 

 ing, that one would imagine it iurBcient to 

 convince the blinded and moft prejudiced 

 of the cultivating tribe. — They ufe them for 

 both fheep and beails. 



They fow a little rape on new land : 

 Pan'ng and burning, and one plowing, is the 

 preparation — never feed it: The average 

 crop of feed half a laft. 

 No clover ufed. 



They cultivate a few tares for the feeding 



horfes. Likewife a little buckwheat, but 



t reckoned profitable. 



Potatoes they plant after two or three 



/ings: Slice them into fetts. Twelve 



hels will plant an acre, at one foot fquare. 



They hand-hoc them twice, and hand-weed 



ilionaHy. The crops are ufually 



rlh from 7/. to 10/. at 9 d. a bufh'ei. 



Wheat 



