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 The average value is 30 j-. per acre; they 

 ule them for flieep and bealh. 



For potatoes they generally plough up 

 the turf, and dibble the ilices in one foot 

 from each other. While growing, they 

 hand hoe and hand weed well. They get 

 large crops in this manner, and very fine 

 wheat or barley after them. 



They have plenty of marie in this coun- 

 try, chiefly red and blue ; they lay thirty 

 three-horfe cart loads on an acre ; and 

 reckon that it lafts very good five or fix 

 years ; cofts 3 /. an acre ; it is reckoned a 

 vafl improvement. Of lime they lay a 

 waggon-load per acre of fixty bufhels ; it 

 cofts i/. carriage included. 



The product of a cow they reckon at 

 3 /. to 4 /. the quantity of milk from two 

 to fix gallons a day. 



Very few flieep kept. 



In their tillage they reckon eight horfes 

 necefTary for the management of one hun- 

 dred acres of arable land; ufe four in a 

 plough, and do an acre a day. Some farn.- 

 ers have the double ploughs, which they 

 work alfo with four horfes. They calcu- 

 late the annual expence of a horfe at 8/. 

 May is the time of breaking up the ftub- 



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