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which is a practice I had not yet remarked. 

 Dined with Mr. Workman, at Mahon ; about 

 that place the fize of their farms are from 10 

 to 20 acres, at about 1 2s. to 15s. an acre; and 

 fome of them hiring 20 acres, will let off 5 

 or 6 at 1 8s. to 20s. an acre. They are in ge- 

 neral very well off as to living ; their food is 

 Jlir-about, potatoes, bread of mallin or wheat, 

 and fome meat once a fortnight. They are 

 well cloathed, and have plenty of fuel ; a man 

 with 20 acres will have 1 50 kifhes of turf a 

 year. A man of 1 5 acres will have between 

 a rood and half an acre of flax -, one acre of 

 potatoes 5 2 to 4 acres of oats, and will mow 

 2 acres ; one horfe, 2 or 3 cows, one young 

 beaft, and a pig, but not much poultry. Pigs 

 depend on potatoes. 



Their courfe : 1. Potatoes. 2. Flax. 3. 

 Oats, or 4. Oats, and then leave it to grafs 

 itfelf. Scarce any fallow, a few fow clover, 

 which increafes, to mow for foiling their cows. 

 The weavers univerfally earn much more 

 than the few country labourers there are. 

 The beft flax feed for clay land the Dutch, 

 and for light land the American. Scarce any 

 of them lave their own feed, confequently no 

 rippling; it muft ftand then till dead ripe, 

 which they think leffens the quantity, and 

 makes it coarfer. The richer the land the 

 better. Sow generally on one ploughing. 

 They weed it with much care. In watering, 

 clay water reckoned much better than bogs, 

 which they are leaving off. In general they 



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