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expence of four ſhillings per acre; in both theſe ways, fhey have depoſited nearly the ſame quantity of ſeed as in the promiſcuous planting, eſpecially in the cloſer rows.

‘The produce has been uniformly ſuperior ta thoſe planted in the old method, and the land kept cleaner for enſuing crops. Rotation of crops on the clayey loam.

1ſt. Fallow manured with ten cart-loads of dung, and ſixty or eighty buſhels of lime per acre, mixed with the earth of the head-lands.

2d. Wheat 5th. Clover 3d. Beans bvth. Clover 4th. Barley 7th. Wheat.

‘The grub has of late years ſo attacked the wheat ſown on the clover lays, that this practice is in ſome meaſure diſ- continued.

In the foregoing rotation, the crops are good; ſeldom leſs than twenty-five or thirty buſhels of wheat, and the ſame quantity of beans. The beans are planted promiſcuouſly, after the rate of five buſhels of ſeed to an acre; and after beans they ſometimes ſow the winter vetch; feed it twice in the ſpring, and prepare the land for wheat.

In no county are the farmers more attentive to the mode of ſowing wheat, or laying up their lands in fuch form as to ſecure them from injury by winter rains; and the quality of the grain is ſuch, as to induce the farmers of Suſlex, Pants, and Berks, to purchaſe it for /eed at Weylbill fair at a great price; ſeldom leſs than ten ſhillings and fſix-pence per buſhel.

An implement called a mattock is much uſed here, and is peculiar, I believe, to the Weſt of England; it is of great ſervice in ſowing wheat and peaſe on clay lands; the ridges conſiſt of ſix furrows, with a furrow left unploughed be- tween each ridge, which is called a cemb.‘The labourers

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