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bufhels, but that is extraordinary, 4 or 5 bolls 

 common ; and the crops will hold good through 

 the whole courfe, the firft will be the worft. 

 Another courfe : 



1. Potatoes. 2. Flax, or oats. Alfo after 

 feveral crops of oats, plough thrice and fow 

 flax feed, 2 bufhels to an acre, and yield 12 to 

 18 ftone to every bufhel of feed. Never fow 

 flax twice running. Plant 16 to 18 bufhels of 

 potatoes on an acre; they do not live entirely 

 on them, but have oatmeal, oaten bread, and 

 fometimes flefh meat, once or twice a week. 

 In fpinning a woman will do 5 or 6 hanks a 

 week, and gets 30s. for it by hire, as wages 

 for half a year; a girl of 12 years old three 

 halfpence, or two-pence a day. A man will 

 earn, by weaving coarfe linen is. 2d. and is. 6d. 

 by fine linen. The manufacturers live better 

 than the labourers; they earn 3s. 6d. a week 

 in winter, and 4s. in fummer. Manufactur- 

 ers have all from 6 to 1 5 acres from 6s. to 20s. 

 an acre, and the houfe into the bargain; ge- 

 nerally 2 or 3 cows, and a bit of flax enough 

 for half a bufhel or a barrel of feed, at 3 bufh- 

 els to an acre. The country labourers have 

 alfo from 6 to 10 acres. A cabbin without 

 land il. is. a year. Cloth and yarn never fo 

 dear as at prefent, and people all employed — 

 none idle. A cottage-building 5I. ditto ftone 

 and flate Sol. A great rife of both labour and 

 provifions ; 20 years ago beef id. and 1 ?d. per 

 lb. and labour 3d. and 4d. a day. 



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