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for all forts of cattle. Clover they fbw with 

 barley and oats, ufe it chiefly for hay, of 

 which they get two tons per acre at a mow- 

 ing. Tares they fow for hay, and get four 

 loads an acre, three- horie cart loads, worth 

 20 j. a load, and fallow after them for wheat. 

 Buckwheat they have (own for a dreffing for 

 wheat, by plowing it in, and find it does 

 bell: on dry fandy land* 



They dig for potatoes generally after oats, 

 dunging the land well; they dibble the fetts 

 in ; twenty-two bufhels do an acre. Seme 

 hand-weed them while growing • others 

 hand-hot: them. The crop about 320 ctvt, 

 per acre, (120/^. each j) fome twice as 

 much. Mr. "Tho??ias V/arburton, of Alt ring- 

 ham, made for lbme years 25 /. a year from 

 one acre of land by potatoes. They fow 

 wheat or barley after them, and are lure of 

 a great crop. 



Marie is their great manure ; they have 

 it of all forts, red, white, blue, black, and 

 brown ; they reckon it does belt on the 

 ground it is under ; lay from twenty-four to 

 forty fquare yards on an acre. Upon clay 

 they lay thirty- two; upon fan d forty ; and 

 upon bog the fame. It cofts about 1 s. a 

 yard. It will be an improvement in lbme 

 mcafure for ever, if not kept too long in 

 tillage. They have found from experience, 

 that it aniwers well to marie twice. 



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