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The fyftem of the flock farmers is in gene- 

 ral dairying, but upon the beft lands they fat- 

 ten bullocks, cows being only kept on lands 

 which they think will not do for bullocks. 

 The cows are all let, and paid for principally 

 by butter, one cwt. to a cow, and 255. horn 

 money. The dairyman's privilege is a cabbin, 

 a garden of an acre, and the grafs of a cow or 

 horfe to every twenty cows, and may rear half 

 the calves, and keep them to November or 

 Chriflmas. To 60 acres, 24 cows, i horfe, 

 30 (beep ; this is jufl two acres a head, and 

 it is about the average of the country. The 

 dairymen are not in good circumftances, mak- 

 ing a mere living. The fwine here are of a 

 large white fort, and rife to two cwt. they arp 

 moftly fattened on potatoes, but have ibme 

 oats at laft to harden the fat. A good many 

 fheep ; the fyftem is to keep the lambs till 

 three year old wethers, and fell them fat at 

 2os. each -, the fleeces yjb. Tythes, wheat 

 6s. barley 55. Oats 45. Rape np tythe. Po- 

 tatoes 8d. to iqd. mowing ground is. to 3^. 

 fheep 2d. each. 



The poor people do not all keep cows, but 

 all have milk ; all have pigs and poultry ; are 

 pot better off than twenty years ago. Have 

 a potatoe garden, of which one-half to three- 

 fourths of an acre carries a family through 

 the year ; they live entirely upon them, felling 

 their pigs. They pay a guinea for a cabbin, 

 and 10 perch ; if half an acre, 2!. 2S. A 

 whole acre, and a cabbin 011 poor ground, 



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