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is either lime-ftone, lime-ftone gravel, or 

 moor j lets at 1 3s. an acre on a medium. 



The Course. 



1. Fallow. 2. Wheat, low 1 barrel, pro- 

 duce i;i. 3 Peas, fow I barrel, and get 5 to ioi 



1. Fallow. 2. Wheat. 3. Oats, fow 2 bar- 

 rels, get 8 to 15. 



Alfo, 1. They burn moors for turnips : no 

 hoeing, draw them for fheep. 2. Barley or 

 bere, fow 1 barrel of bere, get 8 to 18. Sow 

 of barley 1 barrel, get as much barley as bere. 

 3. Oats. 4. Oats ; after which they leave it 

 to graze itfelf. Alfo on moory lands, rape or 

 rye inftead of, or after turnips. 



Flax is fown by all poor people and little 

 farmers for their own ufe. 



Potatoes are fo much planted that all the 

 dung of the country is applied to them ; fome 

 few plant them with the plough, but it does 

 not well, unlefs the land is fummer fallowed : 

 the chief culture is in the gardens of the cab- 

 bins, for they hire no land of the farmers for 

 potatoes. No fheep folding. Lime-Hone gra- 

 vel is much ufed for tillage land, and the be- 

 nefit found great for fix or feven crops. 



The grafs is applied to fattening, dairying, 

 and fheep. Dairies from 33 to 40 cows are 

 common here ; they keep them in their own 

 hands. An acre and a half of middling grafs 

 for a cow. Some make butter, but none, if 



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