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£. s. d. 



Twelve Scotch bullocks, weight 40ft. each 



4 weeks, at 2s. per head per week - - 4 16 o 

 Eight homebrcds, 2 years old, at is. ditto - 1 12 o 

 Fifteen cows full-fizeJ, at 2s. per v/cek -600 



Forty fheep, at 3d. ditto - - - -200 



Eighteen horfes, fed in the (tables with an al- 

 lowance of hay, at is. ditto - - - 3 12 o 



£.18 o o 



Bcfulcs 40 ftore hogs and pigs, which lived upon the 

 broken pieces and offal, without any other allowance 

 for the whole 4 weeks. 



When it is confidered, how very nourifhing a 

 food the turnip-rooted cabbage is, the price I have 

 fixed to the keeping each bead per week will not, 

 I conceive, be deemed too high. I am fure the 

 farmers here will always, at that particular feafon 

 of the year, be willing to give it, and more; becaufe 

 it enables them to fpare the young (hooting grafs 

 (which is fo frequently and greatly injured by the 

 tread of the cattle in the frofty nights) until it gets 

 to iuch a length and thicknefs as to be afterwards 

 but little affected by the drought of the fummer. 

 They have befides other great advantages to re- 

 commend them to a more common ufe ; they are 

 never affected by the mod intenfe frofts } if bitten 

 by fheep, hares, rabbits, or the wood-pigeons, 

 (which in this place abound to the great deftruc- 



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