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the products of the earth fell at a beneficial 

 price ; and while we hear fuch clamours 

 among the people for want of a greater 

 plenty of food. 



About Rothbury the foil is both gravel, 

 clay, fand, and moory ; the inclofures lett at 

 20s. an acre; the moors at is, and after- 

 wards at 2S. ®d. and more. 



Farms rife from 50/. to 150/. a year. 



The courfes ; 



1. Fallow 3. Barley 



2. Wheat 4. Oats. 



3. Barley Alfo, 



4. Oats. 1. Turneps 

 And, 2. Barley 



1. Turneps, fed 3. Oafs 



off for 4. Oats. 



2. Wheat 



For wheat after turneps they plow but 

 twice; after fallow three or four times; fow 

 two bufhels an acre in OBober and Novem- 

 ber, and reap from fixteen to twenty. For 

 barley they ftir twice, fow three buihels the 

 end of April, or the beginning of May, and 

 reckon the average produce twenty-four 

 buihels. They plow but once for oats, fow 

 fix bufliels, before barley, and gain in return 

 from forty to fixty. For peafe they give 

 but one plowing, fow two buihels, before 

 barley, and get, upon an average, about tea 

 bufhels. They ftir three or four times for 

 fye, fow two bufliels, and reap twenty. 



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