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turnips; 3. autumn wheat, spring, wheat, or barley, 
with seeds, then pasture for two or three years: the 
paring and burning here cost from 2l. 2s. to 2l. 10s. 
per acre, with three quarts of good beer per day to 
each labourer} but the ground was very much covered 
with gorse, and very stony likewise, which rendered 
the work difficult, and had been thought impracticable, 
which accounts for the high price given; the ashes also 
cost Is. 6d. per acre the spreading. Mr. C. says, “ I 
was at considerable loss in one part, by not spreading 
the ashes so soon as they ought to have been, being 
what is termed in a dead state, and the crops suffered 
accordingly ; but I afterwards took care to have them 
spread in a live state, with different kinds of grain, &c. 
as Avheat, rye, turnips, and potatoes, according to the 
season, and as the ashes wei*e ready, when the whole 
produced good crops; but, on the average, the potatoes 
answered best; I sold, at one time, nearly 40 acres of 
potatoes to different persons, from new enclosed -waste 
land, managed as above, at from eight guineas to 
twelve guineas an acre, those who bought them gather¬ 
ing the crop, and carrying them off the ground ; rye 
sold at ten guineas, and oats at 61. per acre. I wished 
to bring this land to sheep pasture as soon as possible, 
but the seeds sown on these crops in the spring failed y 
I was, therefore, obliged to turnip fallow with about six 
tons of lime per acre, drawn twelve miles ; the turnips 
and barley following were good, and the seeds then 
succeeded perfectly well, which I attribute to the lime, 
which answered much better on this fresh soil, by many 
times oyer, than on old tilled land, though used in the 
fame quantity, 
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