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and after it is fowri and harrowed, they go 

 ©nee with the plough in every furrow, and 

 fhovel out all the loofe moulds : a practice 

 which cannot be praifed too much. They 

 are lo far from cutting frraw into chaff, that 

 they throw away that of their crops. They 

 are, upon the whole, in much better cir- 

 cumitances than formerly, have fewer holi- 

 days, and more induftry. Tythes are com- 

 pounded. !V:cadow 3 s. Wheat 5 s. Bere 5 s. 

 Oats 3 s. Leafes are from 21 to 31 years. 

 Rent of a cabbin and fmall garden 40 s. 

 Building one 5 1. A farm-houfe, and offices 

 for 50 acres, 40 1. I remarked, all the way 

 I came, great quantities of poultry in the 

 cabbins and farms. 



Mr. Jones, in an attentive practice of agri- 

 culture, has tried fome experiments of con- 

 fequence. Potatoes he has cultivated for cat- 

 tle ; and had, at onetime, twelve fiore bullocks 

 keeping uprn them — they liked them much, 

 and eat thrct barrels a day. They weighed 

 5 cwt. each; aid had they been kept long 

 enough on the potatoes, would have been 

 fattened. For his hor'fes, he boils the pota- 

 toes, gives them, mixed with bran, and finds 

 that they do' very vycll on tjiem, without 

 oats, 



Mr. Armftrong, of Kiqg's-county, had 80 

 fheep in the fnovy Iaft winter, which got to 

 his potatoes, and eat them freely, upon which 

 he picked 40 of them, and put them to that 

 food regularly ; they fattened very quick, 



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