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one with another, at 5X. per flieep per an-' 

 num. They keep them in winter and 

 fpring upon their flieep walks and turneps ; 

 of the latter they keep fome to the end 

 o^ April, The average weight of fleeces 

 7 ib. and value 7 d, per lb. 



They conftantly falve all flieep in OBo- 

 ber^ with tar and butter; two gallons of 

 tar and a firkin of butter, melted together, 

 will do 110. They reckon this method 

 keeps them free from the fcab, warm in 

 the bad weather, and alfo makes the wool 

 grow. 



In their tillage they reckon 20 horfes 

 and as many oxen necelTary for the ma- 

 nagement of 500 acres of arable land ; they 

 ufe in a plough two horfes and two oxen, 

 but in feme lands only two horfes, which 

 do an acre a day in fummer, but only three 

 roods in winter : They allow their horfes two 

 bufhels of oats a week/'i'r horfe, and reckon 

 the annual expence per horfe at 6/. 6j-. 

 The winter food of their oxen is ftraw and 

 fome coarfe hay ; and they calculate the 

 whole annual expence at lefs than 50j-. but 

 horfes are the beft, though not in proportion 

 to the expence. The time of breaking up 

 the bubbles for a fallow is the beginning of 



March -, 



