Excerpt from Six Months Tour Through the North of England, Vol. 2: Containing, an Account of the Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures and Population, in Several Counties of This Kingdom
From Beverley to Driffield is, I think, by much the best turnpike road I have met with in Yorkshire; it is an open wold country, cultivated in a very indifferent manner. Around the latter named town, the soil is chiefly clay; lets at about 10 s. an acre. Farms, from 30 l. to 120 l. Their course is,
1. Fallow
2. Wheat or barley
3. Pease or beans
4. Oats.
They plough four times for wheat, sow two bushels and a peck, and reap at an average twenty-four. For barley they give five ploughings, sow three bushels, and gain in return about three quarters and an half.
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