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Account of Afby, in the County of Weftmoreland. 
304 [Rees I, 
Grain, Se. sicres. | Produce. per Acre. | Price per Boll. Total Value, 
NE | | SD A SMe | see —_—)— pees 
5 BE Sa ae 
Oats - - 206 30- Bolls 6s, od. 154 8 6 
Wheat - + 28 1i2—— "76s. ds SoBe 
aPeans and beans 3 Io —— 8s. od. 12-0 0 
ABarley = eT 4 TO ——— Tos. od. 20 0 oO 
Potatoes + =<" - 20 150 tem 4s. od. 600 0 o 
Turnips and Rape 30 2l. per acre. 60 0 0 
Hay ae Oe 1¥O3 300 Stone 4d. per ftone, 5515 0 6 
Pafture - > 2022 16s. per acre. 1617 12 0 
Fallow a 24. PIVEN 6 
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Great quantities of potatoes are annu- 
ally raifed : a confiderable proportion of 
them is ufed for food by the inhabitants ; 
many are given to the horfes and cows, or 
ufed by the farmers in fattening pigs, 
which is juftly coniidered a very lucrative 
article of rural attention; and thofe that 
are not neceflary for purpofes of internal 
confumption, are {ent to market. Though 
it mut be confeffed, that potatoes require 
much labour and attention, and a great 
deal of manure, inthe cultivation of them; 
yet they not only in general produce a 
plentiful and lucrative return, but leave 
the land in fo excellent a condition, that 
the farmers, as foon as the potatoes are 
taken out of the ground, fow it with wheat, 
and have frequently very good crops. An 
inftance of which in this parifh the writer 
of this article was not long fince an eye- 
witnefs of ; where he obferved that 
fome ground, on which potatoes had 
been planted the lat year, yielded during 
the prefent fummer one of the beft crops 
of wheat, for the quantity of the land, 
that he ever remembers to shave feen 
grown in Wefmoreland. Wheat is alfo 
jown after fallow. “On account, however, 
of the great autumnal-rains that fall here, 
and the alternate frofts and thaws in the 
fpring, the produce of a crop of wheat 
muft at all times be rendered fomewhat 
precarious. The fpecies of grain that 
chiefly employs the care of the hufband- 
man, and which moft. liberally repays him 
for his time and attention, undoubtedly is 
- oats; and itis highly probable, from con- 
fidering the nature both of the feafons and 
* But were all the heaths, commons, and ° 
hills in this county, which are now fuffered 
to lig wafte and negle€ted, appropriated to the’ 
moft beneficial purpofes of which they are 
capable, the nature of the country would be 
greatly changed, and every kind of grain be 
the fowing. 
the foil, that this will fill remain the 
ftaple commodity of Weftmoreland*. Fhe 
land on which oats are fown, is fometimes 
ploughed in Auguft or September, and un- 
dergoes no otier operation previous to the 
fowing in the fpriog. This however is 
a mode of cultivation, which, though 
found to anfwer very well, has been’ prac- 
tifed only a few years, aE is pot yet uni- 
verfally adopted. The moft generally re- 
ceived method, and that which has been 
ufed for the greateft length of time, is to 
plough the ground immediately preceding. 
| (Ta be continued}. 
Io the Editor f the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OUR Pedeftrian Tourift through 
Engiand and Wales, in the fummer 
of 1797, has given, in your laft Number, 
fuch a vague defcription of Frome, in So~ 
merfetihire, and its neighbourhood, that it 
would have been as-well had he remained 
a ftranger to that part.of his excurfions. 
His information, whether acquired on the 
{pot, or borrowed from the fertility of his 
own mind, is fuch, that there is no one ac= 
quainted ith the town and neighbour- 
hood, who would not feel a want of truth 
in. the di&tion of his pen. 
His morning ramble was to Vallis. or 
Valois bottom, or,.as he informs us, “* the 
Vales bottom,” in which the powers of 
his defcriptive genius are exerted in dif- 
playing its ‘beauties ; ; and, ‘¢ tracing this 
dingle upwards towards its abrupt termi- 
nation or boundary,”’ he was fhewn a 
probably yaifed, with the fame facility as in 
other parts of England. And the Bithop of 
Landaft has fhewn the probability of ‘planting’ ’ 
with fuccefs the higheft mountains in Weft« 
moreland, 
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