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average about ioo barrels, at 5s. each. They 

 are obliged to clear the land by the firft of 

 November, when the farmer ploughs and fows- 

 wheat and gets fine crops. The apple po- 

 tatoe is liked beft, becaufe they laft till the 

 new ones come in. 



In refpecl to manuring they ufe but little 

 lime, but depend principally on lime-ftone 

 gravel, 300 carloads to an acre; if taken out 

 of the ditch as on the fpot, it cofts about 1 8 

 or 19s. an acre. It will laft about five or fix 

 years good. 



As to laying lands to grafs the tenants do it 

 very often ; but their only way is to let it co- 

 ver itfclf with fuch vegetables as may come, 

 and upon fome land it forms very good grafs. 



But few cows kept. They apply their grafs 

 chiefly to fattening cows ; there is fome good 

 meadow on the river, and in grazing, two 

 acres will fatten three cows, befides fome fheep 

 and winter food. Flocks rife to 3 or 400— 

 buy in wethers half fat, which turn into af- 

 ter-grafs till Chriitmas, then to hay, and fell 

 in February and March; buy at 18 to 20, fell 

 at 30 to 35. They plough with both horfes 

 and oxen, the draft four oxen or two oxen 

 and two horfes. To a farm of 117 acres, ten 

 horfes and two oxen. 



They plough five inches deep, and do one 

 half, or three fourths of an acre a day. Lay 



their 



