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8 6 crops. 
With respect to the general produce of barley, in 
the common fields, from hard tillage, and on some 
moist loams from want of drainage, the average is not 
more than 20 bushels per acre of 9 gallons ; but in the 
well-managed enclosures, and after turnips, much more. 
Mr. Richard Miller, on Brant Hall farm, a cool soil, 
reckons to grow from 30 to 33 bushels, and the best of 
Mr. Knight’s cannot be less than 40 bushels per acre; 
and on some of the rich friable loam, 40 to 43 bushels is 
grown. 
I estimate the produce of the countj’ as fellows : 
ARABLE. ACRES. 
120,000 acres light land, -J-th barley - - - - 15,000 
120,000 -friable or mixed loam, -j^tli barley 12,000 
120,000 —— strong loam, the last proportion 6,000 
Total - - - - 33,000 
The average produce may be put at 4 quarters, or 
32 bushels per acre, deduct seed 3 bushels, remains 
29 bushels per acre ; total amount 957,030 bushels. 
Reckoning the consumption in malt liquor at 4 
bushels per head, gives 560,000 bushels for the annual 
consumption of the county ; the remainder, or near 
50,000 quarters, is a surplus for other purposes, as the 
fatting of hogs or cattle, or for the consumption of the 
neighbouring populous country. 
Oats are grown but in a smaller proportion, and 
sometimes sown upon one ploughing of grass land. 
Mr. Richard Miller generally grows thus, from 35 to 
40 bushels per acre; and the oats are succeeded by pota¬ 
toes or winter vetches ; he sous 6 or 7 bushels per acre. 
Oats are sometimes grown upon new enclosed waste 
land, after paring and burning. I saw, upon a late en¬ 
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