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but the unhoed ones only 20 s. which one 

 would apprehend a fufficient argument even 

 to convince farmers themfelves. They uk- 

 them chiefly for (heep. 



Clover they low with fpring corn, mow 

 it but once, and gain ahout two ton of hay 

 per acre. Their culture of potatoes confifts 

 in dunging grafs land, and digging it in ; 

 they then dibble in the potatoe flices ten 

 inches from each ; and while growing hand 

 hoe them well. The average product per 

 acre is about four hundred bulhels : They 

 low wheat after them, and get fine crops. 



They have fome marie, but not in large 

 quantities, being uncertain where to find it ; 

 it is an excellent manure ; the colour is red ; 

 they lay iixty three-horfe cart loads on an 

 acre. Lime is their principal manure ; they 

 lay eight quarters per acre ; it lafls good two 

 years, and cofts \s. bd. a quarter, with car- 

 riage. They neither fold their fheep, nor 

 chop their ftuhbles. They find the bed me- 

 thod of ufing their dung is to make com- 

 ports of it with ditch-fruit and earth, 



They drain many of their wet lands, dig 

 them from two feet to three feet and a half 

 deep, four inches in width at bottom, and 

 fourteen at top, fill up with flones a foot 

 deep, then lay in the fods and earth. 



Good grafs land lets from 20J. to 25^. 

 per acre. It is moftlv ufed for dairying; 

 an acre they reckon fufficient to iummer 



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