122 A R B E L L A. 



mountain and bog. The remainder at los. 

 an acre. 



j. Potatoes. 2. Potatoes. 3. Wheat, or 

 Barley. 4. Oats. 5. Ditto. 6. Ditto. 7. Ditto. 

 8. Lay it out, and not a blade of grafs comes 

 for three or four years. 



The beft part of the country is under dairies. 

 Great farmers hire vaft quantities of land, in 

 order to flock with cows, and let them to 

 dairymen 5 one farmer, who died lately, paid 

 1400!. a y ear for this purpofe; but 300!. or 400!. 

 common. 



The number of cows let to one man, ge- 

 nerally from twenty to forty. Let at one cwt. 

 and 1 6s. per cow, or one-half cwt. of but- 

 ter, and 1 6s. each, forae one cwt. I2S. and a 

 hog, befides one fourth part of all the calves 

 a year old. In the mountains, half cwt. and 

 55. Others with all the calves to the dairy- 

 men. The dairyman's privilege, from two to 

 four collops kept for them, and one or two 

 acres, with a cabbin ; thefe dairymen live very 

 indifferently, their privilege being all their pro- 

 fit, and fometimes not that. The farmer who 

 lets the cows, muft keep the number to fuch 

 as give two pottles of milk. All the dairies 

 in this county, as in others, in the bonny 

 clobber method, that is, letting the milk ftand 

 feveral days, till the cream comes off, by tak- 

 ing hold of it between the fingers, like a fkin 

 of leather, and fome till it is moldy, the re- 

 mainder 



