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1. Turners And, 1. Fallow 



2. Bailey 2. Wheat 



3. Oats 3. Beans or peafe 



4. Oats. 4. Oats 



5. Oats, 

 which are both bad, but the laft execrable* 

 They plough for wheat three or four times, 

 fow two bufliels in OBober, and reap, on 

 an average, twenty bufliels. For barley 

 they ftir twice or thrice, fow two bufliels 

 in April, and gain, at a medium, forty 

 bufliels. They plough but once for oats, 

 fow fix bufhels, after barley, and reckon 

 the middling crop at forty. For beans but 

 once, on pared and burnt land, fow five 

 bufhels, and get from forty to fifty. They 

 fow but few peafe ; the method is, one 

 ploughing, fow three bufhels, and the crop 

 twenty. For rye they plough three or four 

 times, fow two bufliels ; the crop the fame 

 as of peafe. They plough as often for tur- 

 neps, hoe twice, and reckon the value per 

 acre from 2 /. 1 o s. to 5 /. 1 o s. They feed 

 them off with beafts and fheep. They ufe 

 no clover, but fow a few tares to make into 

 hay for their horfes. They cultivate pota- 

 toes both by digging, and ploughing, and 

 dunging ; if the latter, it is three times : 

 They dice and drop them into the furrow, 

 fo as to (land in rows twelve inches afunder; 

 thirty- five pecks will plant an acre; the 



crop 



