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For turneps they plow three or four 

 times; no hoeing, which is very extraordi- 

 nary among farmers that hoe their beans. 

 The average value is 30^. per acre ; they 

 ufe them for fheep and beads. 



For potatoes they generally plow up the 

 turf, and dibble the llices in one foot from 

 each other. While growing they hand hoe 

 and hand weed well. They get large crops 

 in this manner, and very fine wheat or bar- 

 ley after them. 



They have plenty of marie in this coun- 

 try, chiefly red and blue ; they lay thirty- 

 three horfe cart loads on an acre ; and reckon 

 that it lads very good five or fix years ; cofts 

 3 /. an acre ; it is reckoned avail improve- 

 ment. Of lime they lay a waggon-load per 

 acre of fixty bufhels; it cofts 1 /. carriage 

 included. 



The produdl of a cow they reckon at 

 3 /. to 4 /. the quantity of milk from two to 

 fix gallons a day. 



Very few meep kept. 



In their tillage they reckon eight horfes 

 neceffary for the management of one hun- 

 dred acres of arable land ; ufe four in a 

 plough, and do an acre a day. Some farm- 

 ers have the double ploughs, which they 

 work alio with four horfes. They calculate 

 the annual expence of a horfe at 8/. May 

 is the time of breaking up the Hubbies for a 



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