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kilns in opposition to thofe of Yorkjliire, is 

 what encourages the farmers to extend their 



tillage. 



Clover they fow with barley, mow it 

 twice, and gain two ton and an half the firft 

 time, and about a ton the fecond. 



Potatoes they prepare for by digging, ge- 

 nerally grafs land for the firit crop ; they 

 (lice and dibble them in one foot afunder 

 every way, twenty bufhels to the acre : 

 Hand-hoe and hand-weed. The produce 

 generally from three to four bufhels -from a 

 perch, or about five hundred per acre : — 

 Wheat after them. The expences are, 



Digging, 2/. 



Weeding, &c. 1 5 s. 



Taking up, 1 [ d. per bumel. 

 Marie is their chief manure ; they have 

 it brown, red, blue, and alio {hell marie. 

 They lay two fquare roods and an half per 

 acre, which cod them from 3 /. to 4/. lay it 

 chiefly upon grafs. Shell marie is of fo ex- 

 cellent a nature, that it lads very good for 

 ten years, and the land conflantly cropped — 

 a hufbandry not much to the credit of the 

 Chejhire farmers. They know nothing of 

 chopping itubble, but flack their hay at 

 home. 



Good grafs land letts at about 25 s. per 

 acre ; they apply it chiefly to dairying, and 

 reckon that an acre and half is fufficient for 

 the fummer feeding a cow. Their breed of 



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