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they apply it chiefly to breeding. An acre 

 and a half will feed a cow, and one acre keep 

 four fheep ; They never manure it. The 

 breed of their cattle is the fhort horned, 

 which they prefer to any other -, their oxen 

 are very large, fat to 150 ftone. They 

 reckon the produd of a cow at 3 /. They 

 give about four gallons of milk per day : 

 They keep about two pigs to a cow. The 

 winter food of their cows, ftraw and hay; 

 of the latter of which they generally eat 

 about two tons each. The winter joift is 

 25 J-. and the fjmmer, 30. They do not 

 let their calves fuck at all, but feed them 

 by hand, from three to five weeks, for the 

 butcher, but half a year for rearing. 

 They keep their cows all winter in the 

 houfe. 



Their flocks of flieep rife from 500 to 

 10,000; and the profit of them they cal- 

 culate at 8 J-. in the vales, and 3 s. upon the 

 hills. The winter and fpring food are the 

 commons ; but they give fome hay in very 

 ftormy weather : The weight of the fleeces 

 from 3 to 7 /^. in the vales, and from 2 to 

 4 on the hills, and from 6 ^. to 9 d. price. 

 Very large flocks of ewes are milked 

 ofter the lambs are v/eaned, for from 6 to 



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