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and lheep. A worfe fyftem cannot well be 

 conceived, 



But what inexhauftible funds of fertility 

 tnuft this black foil be poffeffed of, to bear 

 fuch execrable treatment, and yet turn out 

 a pad u re worth a farthing an acre : Forcing 

 the land with fo much lime, cropping it 

 with perpetual exhauiling ones, and then 

 leaving it in fo flovenly a manner, all prove 

 that this neglected moory foil is, in reality, 

 the rieheft in the world, 



At Hctton, a few miles weft of Bel for d x 

 the hufbandry varies much. The foils are 

 light loams, and rotten, black, moory land ; 

 let from is. 6d. to 15^. an acre; average, 

 about 6s. 6d. Farms rife-from ico to 700/. 

 a year, but are, in general, from 2 to 300 /, 

 Their courfes are, 



1. Turneps And, 1. Fallow 



2. Barley 2. Wheat 



3. Clover 3. Peaie 



4. Oats. 4. Wheat. 

 They plow fix times for wheat, fow two, 



bufhels in October, and do not reap, in re- 

 turn, above ten, upon an average. For bar- 

 ley, they plow once or twice, fow three 

 bulhels in April, and gain, in return, about 

 twenty-four. For oats, but one plowing, 

 fow fix bulhels before barley, and reckon 

 the medium crop at thirty. For beans, (of 

 which they fow but few,) they plow but 

 once, fow three bufhels and an half, broad- 



calt, 



