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For turneps they plow four times, hoe 

 twice, fetting them out ten inches or a foot 

 afunder, and value them, at a medium, at 

 45 s. ufe them for fatting fheep aud beafrs, 

 and rearing calves and young flieep. Tares 

 they fow after wheat, on two plovvings, ge- 

 nerally for hay, of which they get about two 

 tons per acre. 



Potatoes they plow for thrice : Slice them 

 for fetts, drop them in the furrows, fo as to 

 lay fourteen inches fquare ; hand-hoe them 

 twice with a hoe feven inches wide; fix 

 bufhels plant an acre : Some years they do 

 not get above twenty-four bufhels, but in 

 others fixty. They fow barley after them. 



In the management of the manure in the 

 farm-yard they have merit, for they flack 

 all their hay at home ; and keep their cattle 

 in houfes, littered down clean. But they 

 know nothing of chopping the flubbles for 

 littering a farm-yard. Nor do they fold 

 their flieep, although their flocks rife to one 

 thoufand. Paring and burning is known, 

 but is going out. 



Good grafs land will lett at 2^s. an acre. 

 They apply it to all ufes : An acre will keep 

 a cow through the fummer, or five fheep ; 

 but they never manure it. 



Their breed of cattle is the fhort horned, 

 but apprehend the long to be beft, and are 

 accordingly getting into them. They fat 

 their oxen up to one hundred and fifty (tone 



weight, 



