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Of wheat the average crop is about 

 twenty bufhels, of bailey thirty, and of 

 oats as much. 



Marie is here the grand manure ; they 

 lay about a rood and half on an acre, 

 which cofls from i /. lo s. to 2 /. and lafts 

 from twenty to forty years ; it is of a 

 brown colour mixed with blue. They 

 alfb lime their land, generally mix it with 

 dung for wheat; it cofts them 10^/. the 

 cwf. 



Their grafs land lets from 20 j*. to 40 j. 

 ^er acre, it is all ufed in dairying. Of mea- 

 dow land they reckon an acre and half will 

 fummer feed a cow, but in the uplands it 

 takes three acres. They are pretty careful 

 in manuring the grals with lime and earth 

 mixed together. 



Their cows arc of an ordinary breed, 

 loofe boned ; fome farmers have aimed at 

 an improvement by hancajhire bulls, but 

 it does not anfwer, except in beauty. The 

 average quantity of milk is about five 

 gallons ; but fome of Mr. Vernon s near this 

 place have given ten gallons per day. The 

 produi^ of a good cow they calculate as 

 follows : 



Four 



