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font chiefly loam and fand ; letts from i 3 /. 

 to 22 s. per acre. About that place it is 

 chiefly Tandy, and fome clay and light loam; 

 letts from 15J. to 2 51. an acre. 



Farms from 20/. a year to 300/. The 

 courfe of crops, 



1. Fallow 4. Clover for 



2. Wheat different terms. 



3. Oats 



They plow three or four times for wheat, 

 fow two bumels a fortnight or three weeks 

 before Michaelmas, and reckon the average 

 produce at thirty bumels. For barley they 

 plow thrice, fow four bumels the beginning 

 of May, and gain in return about thirty- 

 three at a medium. For oats they give but 

 one plowing, fow four bumels and an half 

 the beginning of March, and get about 

 forty-five at a medium. They give two or 

 three earths for beans, dibble them in, three 

 bufhels per acre, at fix inches afunder, and 

 hand weed them while growing; the crop 

 forty bumels. They low wheat after them, 

 and get good crops. For peafe they alio 

 plow twice or thrice, dibble them as beans, 

 and hand weed them; the crop about three 

 quarters. 



But tew turneps are cultivated; inch as 

 do fow them, plow the land three or four 

 times; no hoeing, but the crop is thinned 

 by hand for ferving the markets. Average 

 value from 4/. to 10/. an acre. 1,'ic them 



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