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The produdl of a cow they lay at 5/. but 

 on land of 20s. an acre, they fuppofe it 

 may amount to 9 or i o /. A good one will 

 give 9 gallons of milk per day. Ten will 

 maintain 5 or 6 fwine. Their winter 

 food is hay and ftraw. The calves do not 

 fuck at all, being brought up by hand, 

 about 6 weeks, for either killing or rear- 

 ing. A dairy-maid, they reckon, can 

 take care of 6 cows ; — ■ and a ton and a 

 half of hay is the quantity they allow for 

 wintering one cow. The joift, through the 

 year, 3/. ioj. They are kept in winter 

 in the houfe. 



Their fwine they fat up to 20 and 30 

 ilone. 



The profit on fatting an ox in grafs, of 

 1 00 ftone, they reckon, at a medium, 5 /. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from 30 to 

 100 J the profit on them they reckon at 

 IOJ-. a fheep. In winter they keep them 

 in grafs ; and in very bad weather 

 give them hay ; in j4pn7 they turn them 

 into their young clover: The average of 

 their fleeces, is- 3 3. 



In the tillage of their farms, they rec- 

 kon that 6 horfes arc necefl"ary for the 

 culture of 100 acres of arable land. They 



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