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clover is not added; the following year the land is again broken 
up for either potatoes, parsnips, or carrots, or perhaps oats may 
Jjc sown with clover for the next year's hay-crop ; but this latter 
change rarely occurs. 
To illustrate more clearly the courses followed, and the pro- 
portions of ground allotted to each crop, we shall, for an example, 
take an ordinary farm of 20 acres, and distribute the land as is 
customary. A farm of this extent will generally comprise six 
or eight fields, including, perhaps, one or two orchards. The 
average size of fields throughout the island is from 2 to 3 acres ; 
they are divided by fences thrown up with soil, which take up an 
extraordinary space ; on the top, which is generally from four to 
five feet above the level of the fields and three to four feet wide, 
is grown furze, or wood for fuel. The land of late years having 
become of great value, the banks have in many places been 
removed and replaced by quickset or other fences of a similar 
nature. This is a great improvement as regards farming, for 
these banks are nothing more than a nursery for weeds and ver- 
min ; in some parts of the island, in the neighbourhood of quar- 
ries, stone walls are commonly seen ; but although stone is 
abundant, walls of this description are expensive, and therefore 
not general. 
A farm of 20 acres, as before mentioned, will, with few- 
exceptions (where meadow land or orchards predominate), be 
distributed as follows : — 
Acres. 
Hay aud pasture 10 
Turnips 2 
Mangolds 1 
Parsnips ] 
Carrots Of 
Potatoes 2 
Wheat 3i 
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The stock usually kept will consist of — 
Horses 2 
Cows G 
Heifers 6 
Pigs .. 8 
To manage the above, and keep the whole in proper order, 
-will require the constant attention of 4 persons — 2 men and 2 
women. In most cases the farmer has not recourse to assistance 
beyond that of his own immediate household ; it is, indeed, a 
rare occurrence for a tenant-farmer to hold a farm of this extent 
unless he can rely upon his own family for assistance. The 
Msual price paid for labour is 2s. per day for a man, and 1 s. for a 
