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Their paftures' they lay down with corn-, 

 12 lb. of white clover, and one charter of 

 hay-feeds, and fometimes four buftiels of 

 rib-grafs (plantain). They always lay 

 them down, or rather ?//?, in broad high 

 ridges, by which means there is always a 

 breadth of about two yards in the furrows 

 that is good for naught, quite poifoned 

 with water. 



They have better ideas of manuring, 

 than of moft other parts of husbandry ; 

 they lay large quantities of lime on their 

 lands with good advantage ; the quantity 

 from two to three chaldrons, fometimes 

 one and an half, and ten loads of dung. 

 It cofts them 8 s. a chaldron, and I s. 2 d. 

 carriage ; it is generally laid for wheat or 

 barley, and lafts three years. Paring and 

 burning is pra&ifed among them ; the 

 paring cofts 10 s. per acre, the burning $ s. 

 and the fpreading i s. i d. They have no 

 flocks of ilieep large enough for folding. 



Some clover is fown among their barley ; 

 they leave it on the ground but one year ; 

 always mow it once, and fometimes twice ; 

 get one and an half or two ton of hay at 

 two mowings. 



They reckon the product of a cow at from 

 3 /. to 4 /. io s. Upon a medium, two firkins 

 of butter per cow, at 25 s. Cheefe about 

 one third in value of the butter, bcfides 

 calf and pigs. Their method of feeding 



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