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H??r' chiefly the latter : An acre they reckon 

 _.eep a cow through the fummer, or 

 lix Iheep. They manure it as much as 

 they can, but that is no great matter* 

 Their breed of cattle is the long-horned, 

 and have fatted them fo high as i '^o ftone, 

 but very uncommon; 60 to 80 common. 



The produ<5t of a cow they reckon at 5 /. 

 and four gallons the common quantity of 

 milk per day : As to fwine, they keep 

 none, upon account of cows : A farmer 

 without a dairy has as many as thofe 

 who keep the largeft, which would fur- 

 prize a Suffolk or an Effex man. The win- 

 ter food of the cows is hay, in general, 

 but fome ftraw. Their calves for the 

 butcher fuck from one to ten weeks ; for 

 rearing, not at all, but are all brought up 

 by hand with milk, for twenty weeks. A 

 cow, in winter, generally eats an acre and 

 an half of hay, and they are kept in houfe. 

 The fummer joifl from 14^. to 40 j". 



Their flocks of flieep rife from 5 to 

 1500. They fell no lambs, but rear them 

 for weathers, at from y s. to 14^. The pro- 

 fit, per head, of the flock, about ^s. 

 Keep them, both winter and fpring, on 



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