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per acre they reckon at 18 or 20 s. and ufe 

 them for fheep and beafts; they flock them 

 with eight or ten fheep to an acre, or two 

 beafts. They plough four times for rape, 

 and reckon a middling crop at 3! quar- 

 ters. Flax they fow generally on an old 

 fwarth, plough but once, weed the crop 

 three times at the expence of 7 s. 6 d. an 

 acre ; a good one they value at 1 o /. or 12/. 

 an acre, and worth as it grows at an ave- 

 rage from 5 /. to 8 /. They fometimes give 

 4 /. rent for the flax year. 



Their chief manuring is with lime, of 

 which they lay two chaldrons on an acre, 

 at 7 s. 6d. per chaldron; it lafts three 

 crops ; fometimes they mix it with tide 

 ilime, called warp. They alfo pare and 

 burn ; the paring they do with a plough, 

 and generally fow rape on the land. 



In their tillage they ufe two horfes in a 

 plough, and do an acre a day. Hiring per 

 acre is 4. J. 



Some other fundry circumftances worth 

 minuting are ; the fum requifite to ftock a 

 farm of 1 00 /. a year, they reckon 300 /. — 

 the product of a cow, 5 /. — the profit of 

 fheep 4-f per head; — poor women and 

 children have no employment, but drink 

 tea twice a day. The rythes are gathered, 

 and land fells at ^,5 years purchafe. 



But 



