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flterSetshire, They are bought in good condition, and cost from* 

 81. to 15I. each; during the interval between February and grass 

 time they consume etch about 10 cwt. or 12 cwt. of inferior hay, 

 (■viz.) the skimming of their summer leaze. When at grass they 

 are allowed from o"ne acre to one acre and a half each ox, and some 

 *dd one sheep to each ox. Horses, if any, are kept very spa- 

 ringly, not at any rate to exceed one to twenty acres of grazing 

 ground. These oxen will be fat some before and some soon after 

 Michaelmas, paying for their keep from 3s. 6d. to 4s. per week. 

 Frequent bleeding in small quantities, is found to accelerate their 

 fatting. 



The next stock are bought in June, July, and August, and are 

 not of so good a sort, being either home bred or Welsh, and cost 

 from 61. to 81. These follow the stock purchased in February^ 

 and are sometimes stall fed in the winter, and sometimes fatted in 

 the field ; in either case they have the best hay and good atten- 

 dance. 



They are fat in April and May, and sell from 12I. to 14L 

 each. 



A grazier occupying 200 acres of the best land may fat yearly 

 loo head of oxen, to which add 270 sheep and 10 colts, consti- 

 tuting altogether a profit comfortable, but by no means exorbi- 

 tant. 



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