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nca an acre, upon an average, and add it 

 to the rent of the houfe, it will bring 

 the rent of the former to 6/. gs. 6d. and 

 the rent of the latter to 6 /. 6 s. 9 d. The 

 value of the cow, if her produce were 

 even fent to market, would at leail: 

 amount to four pounds 3 but being ufed 

 in the family, would, with the afliftance 

 of the garden, enable them to keep a 

 fow, or two flore-pigs, which would at 

 leaft double the market-price. As one 

 acre or more of this ground might be 

 mowed every year, for hay, the cow 

 might be kept in good order with this 

 quantity 5 and it would be better worth 

 a cottager's while, to give this rent for 

 this lot of land, than to trufl to the pre^ 

 carious advantage of a common, which 

 always flarves his cow in the winter. If 

 it fhould be alledged, that there is not 

 one cottager out of twenty who can afford 



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