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I calcufate that the 25 acres of corn yielded 

 1 8 loads of ftravv. The whole therefore was 29 

 loads. The cows and horfes confumed 16 loads 

 of hay. 



The cows and (lock-fwine ran loofe in the yard, 

 and had their ftraw given in cribs; the llables and 

 fat hog fties were cleanfed into the yard. In May, 

 the whole was turned over and laid into fquare 

 heaps; and in June carted away. The quantity 

 118 loads, each 36 bulhels, which is the quan- 

 tity made by 45 loads of hay and ftraw, which 

 is near 2|- loads of dung for one of hay or ftraw, 

 and 1 2 loads a head for the horfes and cows. 



E X P E N C E S. 



8 loads of ftraw, (average 1 35,^ id. per load) 553 

 3 loads of haulm — • 158 



18 loads of ftraw — : — ^^ 15 6 



Labour in fliovelling up the dung, and 



turning it over — o 12 o 



£. i8 18 2 



From hence it appears, that had the ftraw been 

 bought merely to litter cattle with, the dung f6 

 raifed v^-ould have coft 3s. 2d. per load of 36 buflicls, 

 Confidering that it is on the fpot, and no expence 

 therefore of carriage in bringing it, this price I 



B 2 think 



