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The product of a cow, 61. 6s. to y/. They 

 give four gallons of milk per day, on an 

 average. To ten cows, they keep two or 

 three fwine. The winter food hay and 

 ftraw; of the firft, about an acre and 

 half. The fummer joift, 35 j. A dairy- 

 maid, they reckon, can take care of eight 

 cows ', calves fuck from five to fix weeks, 

 both for rearing and butcher. 



Sheep they reckon, I know not for what 

 reafon, hurtful among milch cows 5 their 

 flocks are from twenty to one hundred and 

 fifty, the profit 5 j. or 6 /. per fheep ; keep 

 them all the year in the field ; the medium 

 of their fleeces 6 of 7 /L from 3 ^. to 5 J, 

 per lb. 



In the tillage of their lands they reckon 

 four horfes necefiary for fifty acres of ara- 

 ble land, ufc three or four in a plough, and 

 do three rood a day. The annual expence 

 of keeping a horfe they reckon 6 /. They 

 break up their fl:ubbles for a fallow in 

 March ; plough in general about five or 

 fix inches deep ; the common price 8 s. an 

 acre. 



Two {hillings a day the hire of a cart 

 and horfe. 



One 



