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marie a good deal, and find it a fine Im- 

 provement, making the grafs fatten well, 

 and excellent for milk. Their breed of 

 cattle the long horned. They reckon the 

 profit of a cow at 4 /. and a middling one 

 to yield fix gallons of milk a day. The 

 winter food ftraw and hay, of the latter an 

 acre and quarter : Keep about a pig to two 

 cows ; and reckon a dairy maid to ten or 

 twelve. The fummer joifl is 30 j. keep 

 them in winter in the houfe. 



Their fwine they fat to 4/. 10s. or 5/. 

 value. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from twenty 

 to 400, having fome commons in the neigh- 

 bourhood ; and reckon the profit at 7 j. 6^. 

 or 8 J-. a head : Keep them all the year on 

 the commons : Their fleeces weigh, at a 

 medium, 3/^. 



In tillage they account fix horfes necef- 

 fary for fifty acres of arable land ; ufe fix 

 in a plough, and do an acre a day. The 

 annual expence per horfe 4/. i^s. None 

 of them cut ftrav/ into chafl*. The time 

 of breaking up their ftubbles for a fallow 

 is Candlemas ; plough generally four or five 

 inches deep. The hire of a cart and three 

 horfes is 4 J. 6d. a day. 



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