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i. Fallow 4. Barley 



1. Wheat 5. Oats, and 



3. Beans then left to graze it- 



.felf. and they arTu red me very gravely the 

 giais was excellent : They plow thrice for 

 wheat, low three bufhels a fortnight before 

 Michaelmas, and reckon thirty-five buihels 

 the average produce. For barley they ftir 

 from one to four times, fow three bulhels 

 per acre the end of April-, and gain thirty 

 buihels an acre. For oats they plow but 

 once, fow feven bufhels an acre in March, 

 and gain on an average forty-five bulhels. 

 They ftir but once for beans, fow four 

 bufhels and a half, broad cart, both under 

 furrow, and above, the end of February or 

 beginning of March ; never hoe them : 

 They gain thirty bufhels. Sow neither peafe 

 nor rye, and fcarce any turneps. Clover 

 with both bailey and oats ; and generally 

 mow it for hay. 



For potatoes they dig all the land nine 

 inches deep, and then dung it well ; dibble 

 in the fetts nine inches afunder ; reckon a 

 peck to let a perch of twenty-one feet : 

 They hand-weed them, and gain upon an 

 average three bufhels and a half per perch, 

 or four hundred and fifty bulhels per acre; 

 after them they fow corn of all forts, and 

 get great crops. 



Marie is their principal manure, both 

 white, black, blue, fandy, and iome fhell 



marie. 



