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if the latter, it is three times : They flicc 

 and drop them into the furrow, fo as to 

 Hand in rows 12 inches afunder; 35 pecks 

 will plant an acre ; the crop is generally 

 worth I o /. or I 2 /. at I J. 6 ^. a bufhel. 



For raifing manure, they have no idea of 

 chopping the flubbles, but ftack their hay 

 at home, confequently make much more 

 than in places where it is flacked in the 

 fields. They lime a great deal, lay 8 or 

 12 bolls on an acre, at 2 bufhels each. 



Good grafs lefts at 2/. an acre; they 

 ufe it chiefly for cows ; an acre will fum- 

 mer one, or three flieep. Their breed of 

 cattle is the fhort horned, and will fat up 

 to 60 or 80 ftone. 



Their fwine fat from 12 to 20 ilone. 



The produ(ft of a cow they reckon at 7/. 

 in good grafs j do not keep above a fow to 

 ten. The winter food, hay, if acre in 

 quantity, and ftraw ; kept in houfe. Calves 

 do not fuck above three days. 



In the tillage of their lands, they reckon 

 4 horfes will do for 100 acres of arable 

 land ; ufe 2 in a plough, and do an acre 

 and half a day ; allow them half a peck of 

 oats a day, and reckon the annual expence 

 of keepmg, cfc. at 8/. per head. The 



time 



