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acre, or i 20 buflicls, which cod^ 3 ;-. 9 ^. 

 per load, belides the leading. In the burn- 

 ing of lime, one load of coal burns two 

 of lime. — They never fold their flieep. 



Good grafs land lets at 20 j. an acre. 

 They ufe it chiefly for fatting beads, i f 

 acre will fat one of 70 or 80 ftonej and 

 an acre feed four lliecp. They very feldom 

 manure it. 



Their breed of cattle Is the fhort horned, 

 both for fatting and milking. The product 

 of a cow they reckon at 4/. 4^. a good one 

 will give five gallons of milk /^^r day : They 

 feed them in winter upon both hay and 

 flraw; of the firft of which a cow eats 

 from I \ to 2 tons, and always feed in a 

 houfe. Of fwine they generally keep one 

 to two cows. Their calves do not fuck at 

 all, but are brought up by hand; three 

 months for rearing, and fix weeks for the 

 butcher. A dairy maid will take care of 

 12 cows. The fummer joirt: is 351. and 

 the winter's the fame. 



The profit of fatting an ox of 70 fi:one 

 they reckon 50 x. 



Swine they fat from 10 to 24 fiione. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from 300 to 

 2 coo, and reckon the profit of all forts. 



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