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difficulty arises from the probable want of manure. 

 I doubt if the contents of the cow house and pig- sty 

 will be sufficient for more than half an acre, and we 

 have three quarters and twenty perches to manure. 

 But if you cannot collect a sufficient quantity of 

 rotten sods, road scrapings, or ashes, in addition to 

 the other manure, (which shoidd be taken from the 

 cow house as fast as it is made, to be covered up with 

 earth) you can very well afford from the profits of 

 your milk and butter to buy a guinea's worth of hme, 

 marl, dung, or even salt. Rushes, ferns, potato stalks 

 (with salt to destroy the grubs of all kinds -with 

 which they al)ound) and weeds of all sorts before 

 they seed, shoidd of course be industriously collected 

 tor the cov/s' htter, as well as stubble straw, the pul- 

 hng- of which would amply repay the labour. Eco- 

 nomy of manure is very important. If you coidd see 

 a Chinese or a Flemish farm, you would blush for 

 your mismanagement of manure, and waste of seed. 

 With respect to flax, no working- farmer shmdd be 

 without it ; in the winter nights and wet days it 

 keeps women and girls employed, and one yard of 

 home-made is worth two, of bought hnen. I have 

 valued the produce of twenty perches of flax at 

 1/. 10*. this i« too low as will be seen by the follow- 

 ing calculation accurately made dm'ing two years by 

 a lady, whose quiet and unobtrusive, yet steady and 

 consistent exertions in promoting the happiness and 

 comforts of the farmers around her, have long 

 merited and obtained my warmest admiration. 



(1823.) 



Cr. 



Dr. 



£. s. d. 

 To seed for half an acre 



t52 potHes at r>id. per - 1 8 2 

 To pulling-, rippling, bog- 

 ging- and spreading - 3 2 11 

 Scutchuig . - . 1 14 41 

 Hackling . . . 1 2 II 

 Uackler's-diet ■ - 8 6 



lOi 



By 8st. 121bs. of flax, at 



12s. 3d. per . . 



2st. (first quality) tow, at 



6s. 5d. per 

 9st. (second quality) at 5S. 



3d. per ... 



5st. at 3s. 6d. per 

 200 pottles of seed at e^d. 



per .... 



