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a year, but generally between ioo/. Sc 200 /* 

 The wheat crops, at an average, 20 bufheb 

 per acre, barley 36, and oats the lame. 



About Belford there are many variations 

 from the preceding management, which 

 highly deferve attention. The foil is in ge- 

 neral a loam, inclinable to a clay ; good 

 wheat land letts, in large farms, at \\s. an 

 acre, but in fmall ones, near the town, at 

 20 j. Farms rife from 100/. a year, to 5 00 A 

 many of 300/. 350/. and40o/. The courfes, 



1. Fallow Alio, 1. Turneps 



2. Wheat 2. Barley 



3. Peafe. 3. Oats 



4. Barley. 



For wheat they plow four or five times, 

 fow three bufliels in November, and gain 

 upon an average about twenty-one. For 

 barley they plow three times, but only twice 

 after turneps, fow four bufhels, about the 

 20th of May, and reckon the medium pro^- 

 duce at rive quarters. They ftir but once 

 for oats, fow fix bufhels, before barley feed 

 time, and gain in return forty-eight. For 

 beans they plow twice, fow fix bufliels, 

 broad cafl, the beginning of March, never 

 hoe, but get iixty bufliels in return; fell 

 them for exportation. They give but one 

 ftirring for peafe, low four bulhels the be* 

 ginning of March, and gain from none at all 

 to fifty bufliels. 



For 



