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Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Vol. 60: For the Year 1790; Part the First
Flax is chiefly grown there by the cottagers, a poor indullrious clafs of people, whole chief wealth confills in a cow and a few acres of land, a part of which is always appropriated to the growth of the Raple article of their food, potatoes, which are cultivated in a very different manner to what they are in mail parts of England, the land being feldom or never ploughed before it is planted with them; it is inollly paliure land, and well dungcd before they fer the potatoes, which they ina nage in a way almoft peculiar to them felves, and which it is foreign to m prerent purpofe to enumerate. The fe cond crop ofl' this potatoe-ground is commonly oats or flax; the part appro priated to flax is the firongell and rich ell, being efleemed a very impoverifh ing crop. It is firfi well-harrowed, and, where the foil is ravelly, all the (lanes are carefully raked and picked off; they fow it in March and April, and, during its growth, are extremely attentive to keep it clean by frequent weeding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.