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no turnips. For beans they plough but 

 once, fow four bufhels broad-caft ; never 

 hoe, but the flovenly practice of feeding off 

 the weeds with fheep yet continues ; three 

 quarters they reckon the medium produce. 

 They manure only for wheat and barley, 

 fpread it on the fallows the end of July 

 or beginning of Auguft, and plough it in. 

 They ufe three horfes at length, and do an 

 acre a day. The particulars of a farm I 

 gained were 



i So Acres all arable 200 Sheep 

 jT. 50 Rent 3 Servants 



10 Horfes 2 Labourers 



30 Cows 



PROVISIONS, &c. 



Bread, per lb. i^d. Beef, - 3^. 



Butter, - 6 Mutton, - 4-1 



Cheeie, - 4 



Labourer's houfe rent, 2 s. 6 d. and repairs 

 to 5 s. and few higher ; this is furpriz- 

 ing, notwithftanding the many quarries 

 of itone in the country. 



Wear of their tools per annum, 8 s. 



Their firing, 50 s. 



LABOUR. 



In harveft, 30 s. to 36 s. a month, and 



board. 

 In hay-time, 1 s. a day, and board. 

 In winter 8 d. a day and fmall beer, and a 



mefs of milk in the morning. 



6 Reaping 



