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Excerpt from The Farmer's Tour Through the East of England, Vol. 2: Being the Register of a Journey Through Various Counties of This Kingdom, to Enquire Into the State of Agriculture, &C
The barley yields on an average 4 or 43, quarters per acre; and Wheat from 2 quan ters'to 5. The average about 3; Turnips are 'qth, one year with another, 271. An Mr. Carr calculates, will eat-a good acre everyday; but this fecms a vei'y large allowance. They give an acre at a: time, and always pull them up with cronies or hooks a day before the fheep are let in they do not pen the lheep, but move on the hurdles, taking in an acre at a time, and ufing but one row. They are fed off fometimes with bullocks, but it is a bad way; for they find that one acre drawn and car'
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