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beails. Potatoes they prepare for by both 

 ploughing and digging -, if the former, 

 they ftir three times, and manure the land 

 well : They lay the flices in the furrows, 

 and hand-hoe them as the weeds rife, once 

 or twice : They get eighty bufhels oft an 

 acre, and reckon the crop very profitable : 

 Wheat or barley after them. 



Their chief manure is liming ; they lay 

 five load per acre, at twenty-four bufhels 

 fer load, and generally on the fallow for 

 turneps or wheat. Their hay they ftack 

 at home. Though improvers of moors, 

 yet they know little of the paring and 

 burning hufbandry. 



Good grafs will let for a guinea an acre : 

 They ufe it more for fatting beafts than 

 for feeding cows : One acre of good grals 

 will carry a cow through the fummer, or 

 four flieep. The breed of cattle is the 

 fhort horns, of which they feed oxen from 

 60 to 120 ftone. 



They reckon the produdl of a cow at 

 4/. 10 J. or 5/. and expc6t two firkins 

 and a half of butter from each upon an 

 average. A good one will give fix or (even 

 gallons of milk per day : One kept by 

 Mr. Whit tarn, when he lived near Roth- 



bury. 



