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j8. From thcfe data, the value of fheepfold, in. 



SHEEPFOLD. tkis cafe, may be calculated. 



By Mi N. i. it appears that one hundred fheep 

 manured feven fquare rods daily. But the fe- 

 cond folding was thinner ; fuppofe nine rods, 

 this is, on a par of the two foldings, eight rods 

 a day ea c h folding. 



The dung could not be worth lefs than half 

 a crown a load ; and the carriage and fpreading 

 ten Ihillings an acre ; together, fifty (hillings an 

 acre ; which quantity of land the hundred 

 fheep teathed twice over in forty days. 



Suppofing them to be folded the year round, 

 they would, at this rate^ fold nine acres annu- 

 ally ; which, at fifty {hillings an acre, is twen- 

 ty two pounds ten Ihillings a hundred or four 

 Ihillings and fix pence*a head. 



In fome parts of the iiland the fame quantity 

 of dung would be worth five pounds an acre, 

 which would raife the value of the teathe to 

 nine fhillings a head ; which, at two pence a 

 head a week, is more than the whole year's 

 keep of the Iheep. 



It does not follow, however, that all lands 

 would have received equal benefit with the 

 piece in confideration ; which, perhaps, had not 

 been folded upon for many years ; perhaps 



never 



