210 F U R N E S S. 



P R O D U C E. 



One hundred facks, at 55. - - 2500 



Expenses - - 14 o o 



Clear profit . n o o 



One hundred facks coding 14!. gives the prime 

 cofl of 2S. 9d. a fack. They are often fold as 

 they grow, for i6L or i81. an acre. No 

 turnips. 



Lime not generally ufed, Mr. Nevil has a 

 kiln that draws 16 barrels a day. Burns with 

 culm, at as. 8d. a barrel. Pays for quarrying, 

 2d. and burning, id. The lime cofts him, at 

 the kiln, icd. a barrel* Lime-flone gravel 

 more ufed, which lafts feven years, and on. 

 ibme foils longer : twelve loads on a fquare 

 perch may be done for 3!. an acre. Tillage is 

 done with both horfes and oxen, and which is 

 extraordinary, the latter are ufed by common 

 farmers as well as gentlemen. Six oxen, or fix 

 horfes in fummer to a plough, or four in win- 

 ter, do about half an acre a day. In the crofs 

 ploughing, which is the fecond, they go nine 

 inches deep, at other times (hallower, price 

 per acre, with harrowing, ics. 6d. They do 

 not begin to mow their hay till July, get it into 

 the large field cock in about a fortnight, which 

 they leave out three or four weeks longer ; a 

 medium crop 12 loads an acre, at the average 

 price of 55. 6d. 



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