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3 /. 1 o X. or 4 /. They likewife ufc a little 

 lime ; find it anfwers bed on cold fpringy 

 land ; they lay it on the fallows twenty 

 bufliels per acre ; the price ^\d. per bufhel. 

 They know nothing of chopping the bub- 

 bles, but flack their hay at home. 



Good grafs letts at 30 j-. per acre ; it Is 

 chiefly uled for dairying : One acre they 

 reckon fufficient for the fummer feed of a 

 cow. Some few farmers marie it. 



The breed of cattle is the long horned : 

 The oxen fat from forty-eight to eighty 

 fcore. The product of a cow they reckon. 



Three hundred weight of /. j. 



cheefe, at 27 x. - 4 i 



Butter, - - - o 10 



Calfi - - - o 10 



The average quantity of milk five gal- 

 lons a day. They keep about four hogs to 

 ten cows, which is alfo the number they 

 reckon proper for a dairy maid to look 

 after. The winter food is hay and ftraw ; 

 the quantity of the firfl is various j but 

 many farmers give their cows very little 

 hay, fo that the quantity rifes from five 



hundred 



