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and March, and get about twenty-fix In re- 

 turn. For barley they ftir three times, fow 

 three bufhels about May day, and gain 

 thirty in return. They give but one plough- 

 ing' for oats, fow fix bulhels, and gain forty 

 in return. They ftir but once for beans, 

 fow four bufhels, broad caft, the beginning 

 of March, and reckon the average produce 

 at thirty-fix bufhels. For peafe they plow 

 but once, fow three bufhels, at the time 

 with beans; the crop thirty bulliels. For 

 rye they plow thrice, fow three bufhels, and 

 gain four quarters in return. 



But few turneps cultivated : The method 

 is to plow twice for them, never hoe ; the 

 average value 8/. Ufe them for beafts and 

 fheep. 



For potatoes they plow thrice, dung the 

 land well, and dibble them in eight or .en. 

 inches fquare ; they afterwards weed them 

 by hand : The crop from one hundred to 

 two hundred bufhels, at from is. to is. \d. 

 a bufhel : They fow wheat after them, and 

 get very fine crops, much fuperior to their 

 common ones. 



As to manures, marie is the grand one, 

 which is found under all this country, and 

 generally within fixteen or twenty inches of 

 the furface ; it lies in beds, many of them 

 of a vafl depth, the bottoms of fome pits not 

 being found : It is white, and as loft and 

 foapy as butter. They lay about an hundred 



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