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ments, not manual labour, that cannot be 

 contra6led for. 



The common price for digging and fill- 

 ing is 3^. /rr great load, and it is rec- 

 koned, that driver, and team, and carts, 

 double that price, or 6 d, in the whole ; 

 but with the fmall carts, at only 50 loads 

 a day, at 1 4 d. per load, digging and filling 

 are 6 j. 3 ^. and it is fufficiently clear, 

 that two hcrfcs and one man cannot 

 make 6j. 3^. more. 



It is to be obferved, that the manure is 

 always to be laid on the old turf or furface, 

 no tillage given till it is fpread. After the 

 manuring, the improver fliould attempt to 

 let the land i in three-fourths of the king- 

 dom, this would be done vrith the utmoft 

 readinefs; for new and convenient build- 

 ings, good and regular fences, with an old 

 furface marled, chalked, or clayed, at the 

 rate of 100 loads /><?r acre, would let with 

 the utmoft eafe, on a long leafe, at from 

 8j-. to I4J-. an acre 3 but I fliall calculate 

 onlv at ID J. In cafe it would not let in 

 that manner at all ; I know not how 

 otherwife it ihould be made to do it 3 for 

 }):oughing it up and taking a few crops, 

 would not at all alter the cafe 3 and the 



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