46 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



land may be formed from the number of freeholders, 

 amounting to 6000 in the election of 1790 ; fmce that 

 period they are confiderably increafed. 



SECT. < Expenje and Profit. 



I SHALL not attempt to calculate the expenfe and 

 profit of the farmers of this county ; their fyftem is for 

 the mofbpart fo little regular, that nothing very exaft 

 can be given upon the fubjeft j but I {hall ftate the 

 particulars of two farms, of fifty acres each, one ma- 

 naged fo far fyftematically, that clover, to a certain 

 amount, is fown every year, and allowed to continue 

 two years, and when two years old regularly broken 

 up ; and the other, in the common method of plough- 

 ing the heart out of the ground, and letting it come to 

 grafs of itfelf. Particulars of Mr. Gracey's farm, in 

 Lecale, of fifty acres : eight acres wheat, eight acres 

 barley, eight acres oats, eight acres potatoes, fixteen> 

 acres of clover, one and two years old, and two acres 

 of meadow ; ftock, feven cows and a bull, feven young 

 cattle, fifteen flieep, three pigs, and fix horfes ; all on 

 fixteen acres of clover. Particulars of a farm of fifty 

 acres, managed in the ufual way, without clover, &c. : 

 wheat four acres, barley four acres, oats eight acres, 

 potatoes four acres, meadow four acres, grafs twenty- 

 fix acres j ftock, four horfes, eight cows, fix young 



cattle, 



