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Alfi, 

 i. Fallow 3. Turneps 



2. Bailey 4. Barley. 



From Rudgley Bridge to Lichfield land let*. 

 from 20s. to 3/. an acre; average about 

 25'J". Farms from 20/. to 200/. a year. 



About Shenjlone the foil is light, fandy, 

 and gravelly j lets at 15J. an acre upon a 

 medium. Farms from 20/. to 400/. 

 The courfe, 



1. Turneps 3. Barley 



2. Barley 4. Clover, 2 or 3 years. 

 Some farmers continue this courfe as fol- 

 lows ; 



5. Wheat 6. Oats. 



They plow thrice for wheat ; fow two 

 bulhels, and reap, on an average, twenty- 

 five. For barley they ftir twice, fow three 

 and an half, or four bulhels, and gain upon 

 a medium forty. Oats they generally low 

 on turf, plough it once, fow tour bulhels, 

 and reckon the mean crop at forty- five. 

 They fow a few peafe ; upon turnep land 

 four bu (lids per acre, and gain about thirty 

 in return. 



For rye they fcir twice ; fometimes fow it 

 on turf on one earth ; two bufhels of feed ; 

 the crop thirty. For turneps they plough 

 thrice; hoeing is coming into fafhion pret- 

 ty faff, about half the crops in the country 

 being now hoed; but they do it only once; 

 tbr value of the hoed crops $$s. per acre, 



but 



