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keep a cow through the fummer, or five 

 flieep ; but they never manure it. 



Their breed of cattle is the fhort horned, 

 but apprehend the long to be beft, and are 

 accordingly getting into them. They fat 

 their oxen up to 150 ftone weight, and 

 reckon 4/. 4^. the profit on one of 80 

 flone. Their fwine to 25. 



Four pounds they reckon the produce of 

 a cow, and a good one to give fix gallons 

 of milk a day : A dairy of eight, will ena- 

 ble the farmer to keep nine or ten fwine. 

 They give them hay in winter while milk- 

 ed, and ftraw when dry ; keep them in 

 the houfe, and allow each a ton andshalf 

 of hay. The calves do not fuck at all, 

 but are brought up by hand ; four months 

 for rearing, and two for killing. One 

 maid will, with help, take care of ten cows. 

 Their flocks of fheep rife from 100 to 

 600 } and the profit they reckon on buying 

 to fat as follows : 



Lamb, - - - - o 8/. o 

 Wool, ----.02 o 

 Improvement of ewe, 040 



o 14 o 



On 



