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When he fows barley on potatoe land, he 

 gets 20 barrels an acre. One article in the 

 management of his eftate cannot be too much 

 praifed : wherever he lets a farm that has only 

 a common ordinary cabbin on it, he obliges 

 the new tenant to build a good houfe of flone 

 and flate, allowing him confiderably towards 

 the expenfe. The common courfe of crops 

 here is, 



1. Fallow. 2. Wheat, yielding from 7 to 9 

 barrels. 3. Barley, 1 5 barrels. 4. Oats, 1 5 to 

 20. 5. Left for Grafs. 



The poor here have all of them potatoes, 

 as far as their dung will go: when they hire 

 g'rafs land to plant them on, the account of 

 an acre is as follows : 



10 barrels of feed, at 3s. 41I. 



Planting, cutting, &c. 



Second trenching 



Weeding - 



Taking up, 40 men a day at 7d. 



Rent - 



I- 8 14 2 



The average crop 80 barrels, which is 2s. 2d. 

 a barrel prime coft. 



They have them the year round in plenty ; 

 they are cheaper than oatmeal, and they like 

 them better. They fow very little flax, and 



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