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5. Vetches then comes to grafs 



6. Barley of itfelf, and very 



7. Clover three or fine grafs it mull 

 four years, and be. 



They plow five times for wheat, fow a 

 bufhel and half, and reap from twenty-five 

 to thirty-five bufhels. For barley they plow 

 thrice, fow two bufhels and an half, and get 

 about twenty in return. They ftir but once 

 for oats, fow four bufhels ; the crop twenty. 

 For beans they give three earths, fow two 

 bufhels and half, broad caft, never hoe 

 them, and get upon an average about thirty. 

 They ufe very little rye or peafe. Their 

 clover they reckon more profitable than 

 corn ; get very great crops. 



They ufed always to dig for potatoes, but 

 have of late changed that method for plow- 

 ing : They fet them upon both grafs and 

 tillage land, but always dung well. The 

 foil they prefer is the light fandy. They lay 

 the dices in the furrows after the plough, io 

 as to come up about nine inches afun- 

 der every way ; while growing they hand 

 weed them. A common crop is an hun- 

 dred and fifty bufhels; and a good acre 

 worth 10/. 



The principal manure ufed here is marie, 

 which they lay upon the fandy foils 3 it cofts 

 about 3 /. an acre, and lafts good for twenty 

 years; improves ben: for wheat and oats. 

 They fiack their hay in the farm yards, but 



know 



