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 reckon that an acre is fufficient to keep a 

 cow through the fummer ; but they both 

 dung and marie it. Their breed of horned 

 cattle is the long horns, fat them from 

 thirty to fifty ftone. The produdl of a 

 cow they reckon at 5/. loj". and the ave- 

 rage quantity of milk five gallons a day. 

 They do not keep above two or three hogs 

 to twenty-fix cows. When dry, the winter 

 food is ftraw ; but near and after calving, 

 hay and ground oats ; of the firfl about 

 one half or three quarters of an acre. The 

 calves do not fuck above two or three 

 weeks for the butcher ; but for rearing 

 all are brought up by hand. A dairy-maid 

 ufually takes care of feven or eight cows, 

 The fummer joiil is 30J. In the win- 

 ter they are kept in the houfe. 



Hogs they fat up to twenty-fivt? 

 flone. 



The flocks of fheep are not many near 

 the town, but at a fmall diftance they rife 

 from twenty to two hundred ; the profit 

 they calculate at 10 s. a head. The winter 

 fpring food is a few turneps, but in gene- 

 ral grafs alone. The average of fleeces 

 about 4i7^. 



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