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each {heep, and one fhilling and fix-pence per 

 week for each bullock, which would aniount to- 

 gether to the fum of 14I. los. 8d. for the two acres. 



You will hardly, I conceive, think I have fet the 

 price of keeping the ftock at too high a rate ; it is 

 beneath the price here in almofl: every fpring, and 

 in this lall, it would have coll double, could it have 

 been procured ; which was fo far from being the 

 cafe, that hundreds of Iheep and lambs here were 

 loft, and the reft greatly pinched for want of food. 



You will obfcrve, gentlemen, that in the valu- 

 ation of the crop above-mentioned, I have claimed 

 no allowance for the great benefit the farmer re- 

 ceives by being enabled to fufFer his grafs to get into 

 a forward growth, nor for the fuperior quality of 

 thefe turnips in fattening his ftock ; both which cir- 

 cumftances muft ftamp a^newand a great additional 

 value upon them. But as their continuance on the 

 land may feem to be injurious to the fucceeding 

 crop, and indeed will deprive the farmer totally of 

 either oats or barley ; fo to fupply that lofs, I have 

 always fown buck-wheat on the firft earth upon the 

 land from which the turnips were thus fed off^; | 

 allowing one buftiel of feed per acre, for which I 

 commonly receive from five to fix quarters per acre I 

 in return. And that I may not throw that part of 



my 



