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is red : they lay fixty three-horfe cart loads 

 on an acre. Lime is the principal manure ; 

 they lay eight quarters per aci^e ; it lafts 

 good two years, and cods as. 6d. a quar- 

 ter, with carriage. They neither fold their 

 iheep, nor chop their itubbles. They find 

 the beft method of ufing theit dung is to 

 make compofls of it with ditch- fluff and 

 earth. 



They drain many of their wet lands, 

 dig them from two to three feet and a half 

 deep, four in width at bottom, and four- 

 teen at top, fill up with flones a foot deep, 

 then lay in the fods and earth. 



Good grafs land lets from 20 s. to 2^s. 

 per acre. It is moflly ufed for dairying : 

 an acre they reckon fufiicient to fummer 

 feed a cow : the befl farmers manure it 

 with compofts of dung and earth. 



The breed of cattle is the Ion?- horns; 

 oxen fat from fixty to eighty flone : they 

 reckon the annual product at 5/. loj-. or 

 6 /. The average quantity of milk per day 

 fix gallons. To twenty cows they keep- 

 about fix hogs. The winter food is flraw; 

 and at, and after calving, hay. The calves 

 for killing, fuck three or four weeks; but 

 for rearing, not at all. Ten cows is the 



number 



