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About Morpeth the foil is a loamy clay; 

 letts from 5/. to 20 j-. per acre; average 

 about 1 2 j. Farms rife from 30/. to 500 A 

 a year. Their courfes, 



1. Fallow 3. Beans 



2. Wheat 4. Oats. 



3. Oats Alfo, 



4. Oats. 1. Turneps 

 And 2. Barley 



1. Fallow 3. Oats 



2. Wheat 4. Oats. 



For wheat they plow four times, fow two 

 bufhels and an half between Michaelmas and 

 Martinmas, and reap, upon an average, four- 

 teen. For barley they give three ltirrings, 

 but five on a fallow, fow two bufhels about 

 the end of March, or beginning of April, 

 and gain in return twenty bufhels. They 

 ftir but once for oats, fow five bufhels before 

 barley lowing, and gain thirty in return. 

 One plowing is alfo the number for beans ; 

 of which they fow three bufhels broad caft — ■• 

 never hoe — the medium crop twenty-eight : 

 Ufe them chiefly for horfes. For peafe they 

 likewife plow but once, fow two bufhels, 

 and gain about fourteen. They give four 

 flirrings for rye, fow two bufhels, and gain, 

 upon a medium, twenty* 



For turneps they plow four times ; all hoe 

 twice of thrice ; and the medium value per 

 acre is 3/. ufe them for cattle and flieep. 

 Clover they ibw with both bailey and wheat; 



C 2 mow 



