[ 389 ] 



two fows ; and eight the proper number 

 for a dairy maid. The winter food is ftraw 

 and hay, of the latter from fifteen hundred 

 weight to a ton each. The calves fuck 

 fix weeks. The fummer joift i j-. 6 t/. a 

 week. In winter they are kept in open 

 farms in the farm yard, but in inclofed ones, 

 in the fields. 



Their hogs they fat fo very high as to 

 forty fcore, but twenty common. 



The flocks of iheep rife from fixty to 

 twelve hundred, the profit they reckon at 

 8/. or 9 i. a head. The average fleece, in 

 the inclofures 9 lb, in the open fields 3 or 



In their tillage they reckon twelve 

 horfes neceflTary for 100 acres of arable 

 land j ufe five or fix at length, and do an 

 acre a day. The annual expence of a horfe 

 they calculate at 7/. The fummer joift 

 \s. ()d, a week. They break up their 

 ftubbles for a fallow in March, The price 

 of ploughing per acre is 6 s. and the depth 

 two and a half or three inches i it is afto- 

 niiiiing they can get fuch noble crops with 

 fiich ploughing ; but this feems to prove, that 

 fertility of foil is the grand point, and that 

 the authors, who have fo generally pre- 

 C c -i fcnbcd 



