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grafs was to fow it with buck-wheat, on 

 a fine wrought fallow, and to mow moft of 

 it once a year. He keeps above an hun- 

 dred cows, who have little other food than 

 fainfoine. They graze it in Summer, and 

 in Winter fubfift upon the hay, except the 

 flraw they eat before they calve. Thefe 

 cows the Marquis lets out to his peafants ; 

 fome hires a fcore, others ten, others five, 

 and fome only one. They bargain to wean 

 and bring up the calf to the age of turning 

 out to paflure, for the Marquis, and pay 

 him, befides, 2os. per cow per annum. 

 Thus he gets rid of all the management of 

 the dairy, and, at the fame time, has a vaft 

 flock of young cattle bred every year, out 

 of which he picks the befl to keep for his 

 own flock. In this method he calculates 

 that he makes 155. 9d. an acre clear profit 

 by all his fainfoine, and from land, which, 

 before it was broken up, did not yield him a 

 farthing. But, fays he, all this has, and 

 will, depend on the exemption from the 

 taille ; for, in the prefent (late of my im- 

 provements, were I to pay that impofl, the 

 158. I make an acre, would be at once re- 

 duced to 45. 4id.; a receipt which would not 

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