1505.51 20063)

the following table taken from a ſtatiſtical hiſtory of th

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pariſh of Orwell, drawn up about three or four ycars ago.

Sown annually| Annual produce. Qats;,.= 414=- 50 bolls.| Oats,== 10200 bolls. Barley, 2 1 21 2000101:40:/|- Barley,=- 3080 do. Peaſe; 21. 208070100) CQ2 Potatoes;=" 12600 do- NVheafs PEM EM AP FE do. Tant;== 886 Nones: Pötatoes 1-1 85: do: LDEIEEU 3 1231: 4=1 273.405 DnnmpsS,=,==) 20) ACICs.

9own grafles,- 255 do.|

Mode of Cropping.---Yhe old diviſions of outfield and 771-

; 42053?.; field, and the ancient methods of managing them, ſtill prevail

in moſt parts of the county. The intield receives all the ma- out interruption. From the outfield, after being dunged by

feeding cattle upon it, the farmer tak

crops of oats 3; and then, without ſowing graſs-ſeeds, truſts to the ſpontaneous produCtion of nature for paſture the enſuing ſeaſon. Many farmers, however, are beginning to lay aſide old prejudices, and to adopt improvements, which in ſome other places have been the ſource of opulence and plenty. Regular ſyſtems of cropping are adopted by ſeveral, and are likely to become more common. A general rotation of white and green crops is certainly commendable; but for 2 farmer never to deviate from every punttilio, and to pay no atten- tion to the ſeaſons, or to the ſtate of the markets, would be folly: and for landlords to bind their tenants to a particular ſyſtem, without the ſmalleſt deviation, as ſome landed pro- prietors have done elſewhere, is extremely injudicious, and

which no wiſe and prudent man will become bound to obſerve.

Plantations.--Excluſive of the plantations at Blair, on the eaſtern extremity of Clieſh hills, there are not perhaps in the whole county a hundred acres of land planted with trees.

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