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rately: the latter with one horse and one man will cut two or three hundred bushels in a day. The thrashing mill is usually worked with six horses, two men and three or four boys: it has thrashed out a stack of fifty-five quarters of corn in one day. Erected by Mr. Mickle, and cost near four hundred pounds.

May 26. From Bygrave to Baldock. Wheat in general much wormeaten and very thin; some ploughed up: what is left looks well. Fallow all rough. Barley having had too much rain, looks yellow. Much land in circular and very crooked slips; a great obstacle to good culs tivation. From Baldock to Hatfield, Southgate, and London. Grass every where abundant. Wheat in many places wormeaten and very thin; some few fields however exceedingly fine. Enfield Chase, some years since an extensive common, or forest; now enclosed: a strong evidence of what, a general bill of inclosure would do for the kingdom at large: many fields of very fine corn on what was heretofore almost a waste.

May 27. From London to Gravesend. Wheat along the road; at some places almost lost with the worm: but what is left looks very fine. Early pease in full bloom and very strong, ty May 29. To Rochester. Fine pease after coleseed, Chalk has been spread on grass land