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they are generally very poor. They rear many 

 pigs on account of the dairies, about a pig to 

 every cow, and a calf to every two cows, which 

 they feed on four milk, giving them no new 

 milk. They are attentive to have their cows 

 calve in May. The tillage of the farmers is 

 all done by horfes ; that of the gentlemen by 

 oxen. Four horfes and three men to every 

 plough, one to drive, one to hold, and another 

 with a pole, bearing on the beam to keep it in 

 the ground ; but they do an acre a day, by 

 means of leaving a great fpace untouched in 

 the middle of each land, where they begin by 

 lapping the fods to meet. To joo acres of 

 tillage they keep about fix horfes ; they make 

 up their teams, borrowing of one another. 

 The chaff is thrown away as every where elfe. 

 Hire of a car an4 horfe, and driver, is. 6d. a 

 day*. Price of carriage a id. per cwt. a mile. 

 In hiring farms, they will manage to take 100 

 acres without 100. pence. They will doit with- 

 out teams or cattle, or any thing ; by re-letting 

 the land for potatoes, grafs for cows, &c. and 

 if a fellow gets 5!. by a 100 acres, he is very 

 well fatisfied. Land fells at 20 years purchafe. 

 Rents, at prefent, at a (land ; rather upon the 

 rife, owing to the price of butter ; they fell 

 33. od. in the pound in 1772 and 3. Tythes 

 are Compounded. Wheat pays 8s. the Englifh. 

 cere : fome 6s. Barley and Bere 6s. Potatoes 

 6s. Mowing ground 2s. Sheep 3d. Lambs 2d. 

 Cows 2d. Leafes are generally 31 years, or 

 three lives, or for ever. 



The poor people in general occupy from i a 

 to 15 acres -, but the moll common way is 



hiring 



