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For turneps they plow thrice, hoe them 

 twice, and reckon the mean value per acre 

 at 3 /. ufe them for (beep and befits. Pota- 

 toes they prepare for by both plowing and 

 digging ; if the former, they ftir three times, 

 and manure the land well : They lay the 

 ilices in the furrows, and hand-hoe them as 

 the weeds rife, once or twice : They get 

 eighty bufhels off an acre, and reckon the 

 crop very profitable : Wheat or barley after 

 them. 



Their chief manure is liming ; they lay 

 five load per acre, at twenty-four bufhels /><?>- 

 load, and generally on the fallow for turneps 

 or wheat. Their hay they itack at home. 

 Though improvers of moors, yet they know 

 little of the paring and burning hufbandry. 



Good grafs will lett for a guinea an acre : 

 They ufe it more for fatting beads than for 

 feeding cows : One acre of good grafs will 

 carry a cow through the fummer, or four 

 fheep. Th.3 breed of cattle is the fhort horns, 

 of which they feed oxen from fixty to one 

 hundred and twenty itone. 



They reckon the produ6t of a cow at 4/. 

 10 j. or 5/. and expedt. two firkins and an 

 half of butter from each upon an average. 

 A good one will give fix or (txtn gallons of 

 milk per day : One kept by Mr. Whittam> 

 when lie lived near Rothbury, gave, in com- 

 mon, twenty-four gallons a-day : A Fact I 

 much doubted, until the perfon who gave 



me 



