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They never fold their flieep, nor chop 

 their ftubbles ; but their hay they flack at 

 home. Dung they buy at Newcajile, from 

 I /. to 2 J-, for a tvvo-horfe cart load. 



Good grafs will let for 30/. an acre. 

 They apply it both to dairying and fatting : 

 Three acres will keep two cows through 

 the fummer, and one acre three or four 

 fheep. They manure it carefully. The 

 breed of cattle fhort horned, which they 

 prefer. 



The produdl of a cow they reckon at 5/. 

 a good one will give five gallons of milk 

 per day : — They keep but few fwine, and 

 not the more for tlieir cows. The winter 

 food of the latter hay and ftraw, of the firfl 

 two ton ; keep them in the houfe : Their 

 calves fuck five weeks for fatting, and fix 

 for rearing, and afterwards are fed with bean 

 meal and milk. They reckon fix or eight 

 cows the proper number for a dairy-maid 



to manage. 



Their fwine they fat to 24 ftone. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from 40 to 

 80. The profit they reckon at 15^. a 

 head. They feed them in winter and 

 fpring on grafs — fome turneps — and when 

 pinched for feed turn theni into their 



wheat 



