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 account of the high price, being got up to 

 1 3 s. a quarter. Soot they get for 4 d. a 

 bufhel, lay it on grafs and barley, a chal- 

 dron to the acre ; it lafts one or two 

 crops. 



The grafs lands in this neighbourhood 

 are applied rather more to the breeding of 

 ftock than either to dairying or fatting : 

 They have fcarce any notion of a good 

 dairy for the profit of butter and cheefe. 

 Indeed, as the prices of lean ftock have been 

 of late, indifferent grafs, like theirs, unim- 

 proved, may probably pay beft in rearing 

 young cattle. They allot two acres to the 

 fatting of a beaft of 50 ftone, or to the 

 keeping a cow : A good one give6, in the 

 height of the feafon, three gallons of milk 

 per day, and yields product by the year 

 about 4/. The profit of keeping a beaft of 

 50 ftone a year, and fatting him does not 

 exceed 4 /. They keep very few hogs in 

 proportion to their cows ; a dairy of fix 

 cows does not maintain above three or four 

 pigs. The winter food of their cows when 

 milked confifts of nothing but hay. In the 

 rearing their calves, they let them fuck 

 only two or three days, after which they 

 give them new, and then fkim milk : But 

 for the butchers, they let them fuck four 

 or five weeks. In the wintering a cow, 

 they reckon fhe eats, between Martinmaj 

 X 2 and 



