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but makes as much meadow-hay as ferves for pro- 

 vender in winter, and on which the cows are whol- 

 ly maintained during that feafon. Purchafes llraw 

 for litter, which generally cofts about 30 s. the wag- 

 gon load. A few breeding mares are kept, and 5 

 or b young horfes, but no young cattle. From b to 

 10 cows with calf, and fatting for the butcher. The 

 calves are fold to EfTex and other counties, where 

 they are fed for veal. Keeps about 20 hogs in fum- 

 mer, and about half that number in winter. The 

 buying-in prices from 20 s. to 25 s. They are kept 

 4 or 5 weeks, and fed entirely on milk. They 

 are fold in London at from 30 s. to 40 s. each. The 

 expence of fending there i s. 4 d. each. About 1 20 

 Iheep are regularly kept as a breeding ftock. But- 

 ter, and milk: for the hogs, are the only produce of 

 the dairy. The butter is fent twice a week to Lon- 

 don by the ftage-waggon. The price from May to 

 November is 8 d. and from November to May lod. 

 per pound. There is nothing pai'ticular in the man- 

 ner of managing the dairy. 



NUMBER or SERVANTS, 



2 men. 



I fhepherd. 



1 boy. 



2 women. 



No work- horfes or implements of hufbandry. 



Theie are feveral farms, where a fmall portion of 

 the lands are in tillage, and which properly falls to 

 be defcribed under this head. The mode of ma- 

 nagement, however, is fo nearly fimilar (except in 

 that particular) to the one before mentioned, as ren- 

 ders it only neceflary to ftate, that on thefe farms, a 

 bieedmg ftock, to a certain extent, is regularly 

 kept ; and that it is principally on fuch farms, where 

 attention has bten p;iid to the improvement of the 

 difterent breeds. The Dilhley or new Leicelter breed 



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