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Their breed of cattle is between the long 

 and ihort horns ; the oxen fat to 5 o ftone 3 and 

 they reckon the produ<5l of a cow at 4/. they 

 reckon that each makes three firkins of but- 

 ter, and gives four gallons of milk a day; but 

 nine gallons has been known. They keep 

 very few fwine to their cows, fome none 

 at all, others two, three, or four, to twelve 

 cows. Their winter food hay and ilraw, 

 of th^ firft of which they generally eat a 

 ton. The calves do not fuck at all to rear, 

 but for the butcher a month or five weeks, 

 A dairy maid can take care of ten. The 

 winter joift 30 j. and the fummer the fame. 

 They keep them all winter in the houfe. 



Their flocks rife from 20 to 500, and 

 they calculate the profit of them at 5 x. a 

 head. Their winter and fpring food the 

 commons alone -, and the weight of their 

 fleeces on an average not above 3 /6. 



They reckon four oxen and four horfes 

 necelfary for the culture of 1 00 acres of 

 arable land ; ufe two of each in a plough, 

 and do an acre a day: They allow each 

 horfe two bufhels of oats a week ; and 

 reckon the annual e.xpence of keeping, &c. 

 at 10/. The fummer joifl: is 3/, The 

 winter food of their draught oxen is hay and 

 flravy, but they work them on fl:raw alone: 



They 



