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fummer, and 9 s. in winter. They never 

 ufe any dung, reckoning it poifon. 



The kitchen gardens lett, on an average, 

 at ? /. an acre : One of twenty acres will 

 employ all the year four men if plowed -, 

 and if dug eight, at 10s. 6d. a week the 

 year round. Likewife four women in win- 

 ter, and twenty in fummer, at 5/. a week 

 the year round. 



Their carrots they grow on ftifT as well as 

 light land ; hoe them three times with a five 

 inch hoe ; cofts 10 /. a hoeing per acre. 



Parfnips they hoe twice, to the diftance 

 cf fourteen inches ; cofts ioj. a hoeing. 

 Of this root the product is very feldom lb 

 large as of carrots. 



Onions they hoe three times at the ex- 

 pence of 4 /. an acre. 



Turneps they hoe twice with feven inch 

 hoes. (A 7 ". B. They do not want them to 

 grow to a large fize.) Coils 10 s. the two 

 hoeings. 



Potatoes they hoe to fourteen inches every 

 wav, at twice, which colts 3 s. 6 d. a time. 



The white Dutch c they reckon 



the larrre'" 1 . but frofrs will kill it. latere, 

 therefore, why not cultivate in the field, to 

 come in before the other forts are ready, for 

 a fucceiTion all winter. 



At Kcnfington I came again among fbme 

 formers. Their foil is various, clay, land, 

 and gravel ; letts in farms at 2 /. an acre, on 



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