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10 weeks : They make the milk into butter 

 and cheefe, the amount of both which 

 may amount to about 2 j-. a head : The 

 butter is all ufed in falving them; the 

 cheefe fells fo high as \d. a pound. The 

 hinds wives milk them. This is but a 

 paltry affair. 



In their tillage they reckon 20 horfes and 

 16 oxen neceifary for the management 

 of 500 acres of arable land 5 their draught 



2 horfes and 2 oxen, which does an acre a 

 day. Their allowance of oats per day is \ 

 a peck, and they reckon the annual ex- 

 pence of a horfe at 5 /. The fummer joift 

 of a horfe is 25 ^. The winter food of the 

 draught oxen, flraw and hay, but never 

 work on ftraw alone : They prefer horfes 

 fo much that oxen are going out of ufe by 

 degrees. The time of breaking up their 

 ftubbles is at Candlemas , from 4 to 7 

 inches deep ; the price of ploughing from 



3 J-. 6 d. lo 5 s. And that of a cart, three 

 horfes, and driver, 4 s. 



They know nothing of cutting ftraw 

 into chaff. 



They calculate, that a man who hires a 

 farm of 500 /. a year, fhould have from 2 

 to 3000 /. 



Land 



