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perience has told him that the long horned 

 Craven breed of cattle is preferable to any other. 

 I enquired particularly into the quantity of 

 milk, becaufe the common objection is their 

 not giving much. Sir William Ofborne, as 

 well as Mr. Moore, allured me that he had 

 feen one of them milked, and the milk mea- 

 fured feventeen quarts at one meal ; but the 

 average fix to ten quarts at a meal, which is 

 neither better nor worfe than the common cows 

 of the country : but the milk is much better 

 and thicker, and yields more butter than that 

 of the HoldernefTe. I examined his bulls, cows, 

 and oxen, with attention ; he has a bull which 

 deferves every commendation for fliape ; and 

 three or four out of fix or feven prime cows I 

 faw, were very beautiful ones. 



Of fheep he keeps jooo, that is 200 ewes, 

 200 year-olds ; 200 two-year olds ; 200 barren 

 ewes, and 200 lambs. He fells every year 200 

 two-year old fat wethers, and 100 barren ewes ; 

 the wethers in Oftober, at 28s. and the ewes 

 in the fpring, at 255. His fleeces are jib. each 

 on an average, at is, per Ib. 



Turnips he has cultivated for fome years, up 

 to 30 acres in a year, broad caft, has not hoed, 

 from finding them very good without. He 

 both draws and feeds on the land. He has had 

 cabbages alfo, but never more than two acres, 

 finds them more expenfive, but do not go fo 

 far as turnips. 



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