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when others, who looking on them as Ignorant
men, slighted it, and [tis?] in a great
measure owing to this perverse conduct
that the country has not succeeded as
formerly, in raising Wheat in particular

In the years 1754, upwards of 6000
Bushels of Wheat, were shippd from the
different settlements, now known by
Horton Cornwallis Falmouth & Newport,
Besides that the Acadian Inhabitants
which consisted of at least
men women & children, were amply subsisted
& great part of their food was Bread.

They ploughd the land intended to be
sown with wheat, between the month of
august or middle of September, and the
month of Dec'r, and if the whole intended
to be sown was not plough'd by that
time and that they found the ground (which in
some seasons was the case) clear of
snow in february, they ploughd more,
and as soon as possible in the month
of april they sowed wheat & they laid it down as a rule,
never to [sowe?] Wheat, after the month
of april.
in 1764 I took two acadian families as tenants