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Burton at the caftle, in whom I was io for- 

 tunate as to find, on repeated occaiions, the 

 utmoft aii'duity to procure me every fpecies 

 of information, entering into the fpirit of 

 my deiign with the moit liberal ideas. His 

 partner in Slaine Mills, Mr. Jebb, gave me 

 the following particulars of the common huf- 

 bandry, which, upon reading over to feveral 

 intelligent farmers, they found very little oc- 

 cafion to correct. Farms rife from ioo to 

 300 acres, the foil, a ftoney loam upon a rock, 

 and lets on an average at 25 s. and the whole 

 county throughout the fame. The courfes of 

 crops, 



1. Fallow with lime, 1 20 barrels an acre, at 



7 d. befides carriage. 



2. Wheat, fow a barrel, and get 6 to 7, 



Tometimes 1 1. 



3. Barley or oats, if barley, fow 1 1, and 



get 13- 



4. Oats, fow two barrels, the crop 16. Alfo, 



1. Fallow, 2. wheat ; 3. barley, 4. oats, 5. 

 clover, for 



Two Years 6. barley. 

 Another, 1. fallow, 2 Wheat, 3. fpring corn, 

 4. fpring corn, 5. fallow, 6. wheat, 7. barley, 

 and red or white clover or trefoile and hay 

 feeds. Another, 1 fallow, 2. wheat, 3. clover, 

 2 years, 4. barley, 5. oats. A common prac- 

 tice is, for the farmers to hire any kind of 

 rough wafte land, at three guineas, or three 

 pound an acre for three crops, engaging to 

 lime it if the lime is found them; 120 barrels 

 per acre, which comes to 3!. 10 s. from 9I. 



9 s. 



