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The flocks of fheep rife from forty to fonvi 

 five hundred, and a thoufand, on com- 

 mons. The profit in inclofures, they reckon 

 doubling their money, or about los. or 

 I2S. 2L head, and on the commons about 

 2s. or 2 J. 6d. There is no folding. The 

 average fleece about \ lb,\y or 2 lb. fells at 

 1 J-. a pound. 



In their tillage they reckon feven horfes 

 necelfary for a hundred acres of arable land. 

 They ufe three at length in a plough with 

 a driver, and do an acre a day. 



But a new invention is coming in very 

 fail, which is the ufe of double ploughs j 

 which with only the addition of one horfe* 

 does double the work, by turning two fur- 

 rows at once : It is no gimcrackery bufi- 

 nefs, but fo folid and firong a machine that 

 the co7nmo7i farmers approve it, and accor- 

 dingly fome hundreds of them are made* 

 In Plate X. fig. i. is a fketch I took of 

 one of them. 



The annual expence of a horfe, they 

 reckon at 6/. or 6/. loj. The fummer 

 joift is 2s.(>d. and 3^. a week. The time 

 of breaking up the ftubbles for a fallow is 

 about May-day, The price of ploughing, 

 per acre 6j-. the depth three to five inches. 



The 



