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forty men per acre, according to the drynefs 

 of trie feafon. 



Labour is done by cottars, who have a cab- 

 bin and a garden of one acre, if only one man 

 in family, but if the fon is grown, two acres. 

 The cabbin and one acre is reckoned at 2os. 

 allb two collops, at 2qs, each, which are ge- 

 nerally cows, All this he works out at five 

 pence a day, all extra labour fix-pence half- 

 penny a day, and eight pence in harveft. They 

 all have from one to three pigs, and much 

 poultry. Their food is potatoes for at leaft 

 eleven months of the year, and one month of 

 oat, barley or bere bread. 



Expences and receipt of a cottar family. 



Cabbin, and one acre rent - i o o 



Two cows - -200 



One ftone of broken wool - o 14 o 

 Weaving it --030 



Weaving their linen - -03 



Hearth money - 020 



Tools - 050 



Tythe of one acre - -050 



Hire of half an acre potatoes - 380 



.8 oo 



Receipt. 



Two Pigs ? 2O 



On an average of years the two cows will yield 



three calves in two years - - 200 



Poultry 



